freezerburnt

doing your best to gain privacy & a bit of solace while fighting against a breaded & sauced enemy (whose allure has deteriorated to say the least).

quickly removing that

individual pizza for

one

from its box---all psyched for your night

ahead---

a night alone with movies & pizza and your favorite

beverage

&

no one else to demand anything of you---

yes,

a night for you

&

only

you---

and yet,

now as you open the individual pizza box

ooh

what do you see?

 

fantastic jello pizza stares back at you---

the kind of pizza that has been so freezer-burned by

throwing it back into a cooler,

then taking it out,

and back on a truck

and then taken out---

it now has been reduced to something of

jello---

a jello of disgusting half-frozen slop---

what could have been the start to a great evening

with

yourself.

 

and so you go for your phone---

a reflex to save your evening,

be it domino’s or a local yokel trying to make a few

more bucks on the delivery circuit---

what you need is for them to save the day.

 

but if they show up,

will your night alone suddenly be interrupted?