Breakfast Bars

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by Jenny Chen

Squishy, sickly sweet (like soggy cereal

swimming in a bowl of milk), and

swaddled in gaudy blue plastic,

three NutriGrain Soft Baked Breakfast Bars

sit impishly by my pencil sharpener,

feigning death as they remind me

I pilfered them.

His eyes sank, the first time,

like blueberry jam

soaking into cheap white bread,

and his words spilled out

like clumsy, cloying sloshes of milk.

Slow morning espresso steam, his hopes shimmied and danced

(a smile here,

a stray word there),

gyrating and rising

as if he would never

learn to believe in ceilings.

They were meant for the kids he loves to work with.

Wrappers pinched,

with sugary flour around their strawberry-flavored insides,

these NutriGrain Soft Baked Breakfast Bars might have fluttered like wings

if they could have.

I peel away their plastic

and eat them,

one by one—

crumby exteriors and gooey red innards

and all.

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