Chicken Soup

(universal goods)

Everyone knows that 
chicken soup is universally 
good, except for the chicken, 
of course. 

We're feeling better and the soup goes
down well. It's exactly what you need: 
They keep telling us, as a golf course grows
on the grave of a verdant green wilderness. 

The hills are cut up and carved out. 
Red earth streams in the rain and 
the peppered goodness of an empty
soup bowl stares at me. 

Absently, I enjoy the warm afterglow. 

There is a song playing on the radio...

"this rocket ship goes to the moon, 
but my bones stay here on earth..."

That was delicious, absolutely delicious.