Tonight's Poet Corner: Cultural Awareness: Case Study
Cultural Awareness: Case Study by Belinda Roddie Almost like a dream to be eating a Denver omelet in Chicago where the wind pushes sweet odors into our noses. The mincemeat of Saturday is more dried fruit than beef, more spirits than venison, more flavor than grief. It is chopped and distilled and made edible by an expert's shaky hands. Corn on the cob at the neighbor's house; cold lager in lieu of hot water. Tea is brewed out of pots with faces, and they smile at us from the stove top, bright red, missing teeth, and cackling. Practical jokes make the children cry more than laugh, and the fathers ho-hum about this next generation no longer having a savory sense of humor. The mothers are silent. They drink more beer individually than the men combined. I am full of diced ham and green peppers and spite. I write letters on napkins to send to my wife. She is still in dead Tuscon with her mistress. Fever dreams pick up in the gusts of Chicago. Mispl