Apology

Sorry
for eating
by the tablespoonful
the sweetened
condensed milk
you had kept for icing
but these
are desperate times

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Published in Carapace 70 - Poems Graphics Molluscana. Carapace is a South African poetry magazine published by Gus Ferguson, AKA Slakkie van der Schyf, since 1994. Editorial Address: P O Box 7830, Roggebaai, 8012.

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