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Immutable Feast


Papa said ...

“Sentimental 

people are cruel”

trading what might be

for what is

 

Filling their plates

with what’s not

on the menu

longing for soda

without fizz

 

Papa wrote 

distant

always bringing it close

while leaving the weak

to surmise

 

With feeling

embodied

in hardscrabble words

to challenge but death

— so implied

 

(Gertrude Stein Remembers: August, 2025)

 

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