I sat at the kitchen counter
of my dad’s gas
station
while he cooked
lima bean and ham soup.
I hated it.
What makes a poor child
so arrogant she could hate
her own dad’s soup
then sit and eat as if
it were chocolate
because he made it for her.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.