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PDQ in Tin Foil

Janet Kuypers

I’d say I wasn’t pampered,
I wasn’t treated special
but

but when I was in grade school
kids could buy
for their school lunches

either cartons of milk
or cartons of chocolate milk

and I didn’t like milk,
mom’s the first to tell the story
that I refused my bottle at six months

so juice I had

but I loved chocolate,
and I love chocolate
so I always drank chocolate milk

but I told mom that the
chocolate milk from the school cartons
was too chocolately

it tasted almost like
the chocolate tasted granulated
it tasted too dark

and mom,
every day before school,
would put the chocolate

product PDQ
into a little container
of wrapped tin foil

in with what I needed for school
so I could mix PDQ
into a carton of regular milk

every day, so I could have
chocolate milk
just the way I wanted

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