{"id":2603,"date":"2014-08-21T02:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T02:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:19:40","slug":"cold-night-warm-hamburgers-by-cheryl-buchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/cold-night-warm-hamburgers-by-cheryl-buchanan\/","title":{"rendered":"COLD NIGHT, WARM HAMBURGERS by Cheryl Buchanan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COLD NIGHT, WARM HAMBURGERS<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Cheryl Buchanan<\/p>\n

The day my dad moved in with the other woman,
\nI became a vegetarian.
\nI guess my mom was right about some things,<\/em>
\nlike Cisco, bum wine, liquid crack. Gravity,<\/em>
\nI mumbled, while the runningback\u2019s meaty hands
\nclumsily let slip hunks of my hair, fat strands dipping
\ninto hot chunky remains of the Homecoming party.<\/p>\n

I hurled on all fours, grabbing the earth,
\nuntil suddenly I was struck by the utter atrocity
\nof hamburgers. The impurity of flesh, my birth,
\nthis pollution, all piling steamy onto gleaming AstroTurf.
\nHow disgusting and dirty we all had become, cannibals,
\ncarnivores, warm, pink and rotten.<\/p>\n

The midnight moonlight exposed my poison
\nheaved on uninhabitable, plastic grass
\nwhile the runningback just kept reliving his game,
\na glorified catch at the end of the half.
\nBut, I knew the Hail Mary. It was all in the pass,
\nspinning graceless and groundless,
\nungripped between thieves.<\/p>\n

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Cheryl Buchanan is a former attorney from Los Angeles and current MFA candidate and Writing Instructor at Emerson College. After having worked in social justice for over a decade she is interested in promoting the power of literature and poetry in marginalized communities. She presently leads a creative writing workshop at a Boston homeless center. In May 2014 she received the Academy of American Poets Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cheryl Buchanan is a former attorney from Los Angeles and current MFA candidate and Writing Instructor at Emerson College. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erotic-poems","category-moon-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t