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{ Monthly Archives } October 2009

Teaching tacos

I taught my Nana how to eat tacos, Although she insisted on a knife and fork. The cheap yellow shell, crab-thin, Tapped and shattered to spill spiced meat, thick cheese, sharp lettuce. The cheap and easy exotic artifice, Of scents and dyed crispy pockets, Intrigued and delighted me; the taco shell became soggy under too [...]

Pancakes

Mum made us pancakes for breakfast, On nights after she’d been hit; It was an issue I tried to ignore, Because, frankly, I enjoyed it. She was always jokey and more chatty, On mornings when she got the syrup out, But of course I never fully understood, What the extra effort was all about. I [...]