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- , Apr 01, 2008 04:15pm

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It was after you made that terrible caramel cake.
            The counter was chalked in flour and
            I kept trying to lick the uncooled sugar from the pan.
            (before it blackened and congealed as if decaying compost;
            steaming)

No one ate your cake.
            You chiseled it out of its 9x13x2 inch, straight to the garbage pail.
            Then we noticed (moist and underneath it) a pamphlet
            for some charity or foundation.
            I could not stop laughing. It poured and
            poured from my throat, trying to
            puke up your cooking.

(On the cover: kids with rainbow tigers on their cheek, bald men in silly hats, disconnected balloons; flying)

            But it’s funny. I said That’s a funny picture.

Then my sister (directly): It’s for multiple sclerosis.

            I’m sorry.

~Keren Veisblatt