Takes the Cake
By Karen Greenbaum-Maya
“I was sitting at the table, we had finished dinner,” T***p told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo. “We’re now having dessert—and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen—and President Xi was enjoying it.”
So many problems are being solved by chocolate cake. Beautiful cakes, perfect 10s, are being sent to NATO heads of state. The ones that came out kind of flat, the 6s and the 4s, are being used to bomb Syria. And Iraq, too, why not? Now we are waging war with chocolate cake. Surplus wheat, butter, eggs, sugar, all so much cheaper than ordnance. Only the chocolate is imported. Cakes are raining down on Assad’s wasted cities, bringing comfort to displaced people everywhere. No blasted hospitals, no amputations. A little gut maybe, but hey. People everywhere are happy to see American planes releasing materiel. To be struck by a falling chocolate cake, no worse than getting slapped by flung custard pie. In Korea, chocolate is considered a medicine. Like the healing that chocoholics dream from Death by Chocolate. Cakes are being launched, pushing Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear buttons, showing how good it tastes to choose butter over guns. Let them eat cake.
Karen Greenbaum-Maya, retired clinical psychologist, German major, two-time Pushcart nominee and occasional photographer, no longer lives for Art but still thinks about it a lot. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including B O D Y, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Comstock Poetry Review, Off the Coast, Otoliths, Naugatuck Poetry Review, and Measure. Kattywompus Press published her two chapbooks, Burrowing Song and Eggs Satori. Kelsay Books published her book-length collection, The Book of Knots and their Untying. She has been politically engaged since she was 12. She co-hosts Fourth Sundays, a poetry series in Claremont, California. For links to work online, go to: www.cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com/.
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