Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #58

Disgusted At His Dinner
by Belinda Roddie

Disgusted at his dinner, Rodrigo
threw a heaping forkful of gooey mess
at Sandy's forehead. As she screamed and clawed
at the sticky mass stuck to her eyebrows, her
mother scolded Rodrigo for his bad
manners, but he stuck out his tongue, shut his
eyes, and shook his head from side to side. "No!"
His father tried to make him eat the mix
of oddity on the tiny plate. But
the boy pushed his father's large hand away.
Then I stepped in, furious, frustrated,
and flung my glass of milk right in his face.
"There," I growled at him. "I have more to spare
if you don't clean your plate right then and there!"