Kaitlyn

Creative Kaitlyn

works with her brain

the way she might make a meatloaf

with her hands fully filthy from

the squashing and squishing

and punching and smacking

of the gelatinous glop of her brain, or ground beef,

either one.

With her mind fully focused

on the final product

which will taste like home and ketchup,

and will be greedily gobbled up by 

hungry mobs, she cannot be sidetracked with details like

when school starts and where she sits and

what she is going to do tomorrow.

She knows that finally, in the end,

her troubled work in progress will

make a hungry soul,

fullfilled.

CLR 2013