Family Recipe
Our family recipe is fish sticks.
We used to eat time, now we eat speed.
Are you suggesting I use my husband
-ly privileges to stop her?
As if she didn’t already have enough blocks.
Thunk! go the bricks on the dinner plate.
Samuel Lorraine Goldsmith (he/him/his) is a former musician who lives in Richmond, California, with his family. A lawyer by trade, he continues to obey an existential compulsion to write and rewrite poetry and prose, usually by pencil and paper, for the feel and sound of it. His poetry has not previously been published.