In the Checkout Line

Chocolate ice cream–the kind that makes

my little brother

cough.

Soy milk–

with the blue cap.

Dog food–

the kind that

Michael buys for Roxy.

Eggs–

the chickens were lucky

to not be sold for meat.

Listerine–

the green kind that

stings

my sister’s tongue.

A pack of mechanical pencils–

the kind with the lead that

breaks

when I write with it.

In the Checkout Line by Bri Reisinger is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.