Shawn L. Bird

In my dreams

two cookies appear on my plate

when I glance down

I have eaten one.

In dismay I think

I just won’t eat the other,

but next glance,

it is gone, too.

I think, how strange, I eat

without even noticing.

That’s a bad habit.

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(39 days on the diet–twenty pounds down–apparently my subconscience craves cookies?)