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Easter Dinner
Paris, Texas

Sheryl L. Nelms

“Mama was out
in the backyard

wringing
chicken’s necks
for dinner

Aunt Loretta
was out there too
getting her strawberry
Jell-O salad out of her Ford Fairlane

she was wearing her lavender
taffeta church dress

when one of those
headless chickens started

running and flopping

and it got tangled up
under Loretta’s skirt
in her frilly petticoat

and she
let loose with a
shriek that the whole town

must’ve heard

and she was running
and flopping

with the red Jell-O splashing all over
just like that poor bloody chicken

that was
still

dancing
under
her

dress”

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