Another poem from work: Cheeseburger

Oct 11, 2002    Write an essay on this topic.


The Bottom Line Scribbled on a pad at work during lunch break.

You want something on your cheeseburger baby?
car pulls in like mama’s being cautious
Sure do medium rare and she smiles at me
And then to workboots:
Sorry baby we don’t take no hundred dollar bills
it’s just company policy
But it’s all workboots has
as mama’s little girl explores the parking lot

McDonalds Colonel they all the same baby
and pigtails checks me out just a little afraid
That’s OK I’ll change it out of my purse
and workboots smiles and looks for the tip jar

Cheeseburger! Everything! right in my ear
but I’m a bit off to the side
Cheeseburger! I hear you! and we’re laughing
as she says:
Three fourteen baby and then the rhythmic sound
slap slap slap
and the slow driver saying:
Get your a s s back in that car
Did I tell you you could get out of that car?
And the sound is like a railroad train moving slowly
slap slap slap
and where in the hell did she get that belt?

Because it’s just there like it was always there
and the little girl crying, frozen
as I get my change back
right on time
Two dollars and eleven cents
slap slap slap

And then she’s in the back seat
and the belt is gone
and her sister’s looking
straight ahead with no expression
and the big tear on pigtails’s left cheek
a perfect silhouette
and I can see right through it
to the street beyond
through this drop of honey
and I know her little bottom isn’t
really hurt that badly

and I’m standing there
with my cheeseburger



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