More Mac & Cheese, Please

An expanded and edited version, of the poetic review of KL Goode's "Radioactive orange dye". http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/amendoim1988/1455693/

Sometimes
We must stomach
That which is
Unhealthy.

For our body
And soul
To survive.

More or less

In one piece.

Knowing
Without this holdover
Survival becomes
A vague rumour heard

And dismissed
Around the kitchen table.

As the rumbling grows
Ever so audible
For all to hear
In a 30 km radius.

Pinching pennies
When your assistance cheque
Is still weeks ago
From its arrival.

In quelling
The uprising
From the backseat

Of the rust bucket

You call

A car.

Author's Note

gotcha: gobony