Fourteenth
by Nica C.
“Brown, white or rye?”
Well as it happens, while
bread means hope,
only some can afford to buy
while the oven branded SA
half-bakes all makes,
it is almost always a brown
who cannot afford bread
even with state subsidies.
What with electricity rsing
while less people eat
they won’t bake because
fires are dangerous to make.
White tastes nice, but doesn’t
sate or sit.
Ignore the alarms and each loaf is the same:
black, hard and carcinogenic.
“Brown, white or rye?”
Ciabatta, kitka, brioche, baguette, seed, banana, wholewheat or stone-flour.
I love bread.
I can afford hope.