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by Kerry Michael Wood

Ode to Popcorn

Popcorn. The aroma
Dominates the room
Takes prisoner the air.

I pluck a single kernel:
Tiny brain.
Dry coral polyp,
Domed above
With labyrinthine interior.

Insidious salt
Flavors residual oil.

One handful munched
Demands another and yet
Another till the bowl is cleaned
And finger chases round the bottom
Gathering the last bloating,
Blood pressure boosting,
Artery-sclerosing grain of salt.

Tongue worries husk
Lodged between two teeth.

Cruel fact of post-lapsarian existence:
Anything so delicious
Must be hazardous to health.

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