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Enough to Make an Accordion Hungry

David Spicer

Bertha cooked breakfast and lunch:
cream of wheat with chunky pineapple,
or grits and butter laced with thin strips
of fatback and French green beans.
Man, that’s enough to make an accordion
hungry! exclaimed Lenny, an Iraqi vet
whose arm stump resembled the homer
end of a baseball bat. Every sharecropper
from the Tennessee cotton fields ambled
into Home Cookin’, and Bertha blushed
watching customers swoon at the smell
of her rabbit stew. One time she tried
to train Lenny, but he couldn’t sling
burgers or pancakes. Hell, I said,
you couldn’t ride a tricycle-motorcycle.
You wanna try cookin’, banana head?
Bertha asked. I withered in a haze
of stovetop smells. Later that day
Bertha found her lost Bernie,
who marched in like a porter,
and she shouted in shock, You came
back, cupcake! The ageless man
carried a Remington typewriter, sang
Dixie, and non-sequitered, I won’t
judge you, my love. Bertha draped
her apron over Lenny’s bat, growling,
Come here, cupcake, don’t mingle
long, and I won’t judge you, either.

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