Should I Buy These Eggs?
Should I buy these eggs?
Because we don’t cook a lot of them
And I don’t want them to go to waste
But if we don’t have any I skip some foods
That I’d otherwise like to make
And they’re not all that expensive
But I’d hate to take them home
Just to rot
And I don’t know if I should buy these eggs.
Because there was a car following us
From the offi ce to the store
A black sedan with square-jawed passengers
And when we were in the produce section
One of them got out
Walked over to our car
And stood by it before leaving
And maybe they were just placing a GPS
Or taking one off
But maybe it was something worse
And when we get in the car it will explode
And scatter our corpses and groceries everywhere
And the eggs will splatter dramatically on the pavement
An unintended casualty of our assassination
And these eggs really didn’t do anything to deserve that
They deserve to be cooked and eaten
Not serve as a PG rated stand-in
For the nearby mess that was our bodies
B-roll for the 6 o’clock report
But I might want to make omelettes
And are the white ones cheaper?
(Nope, brown is less this week)
And I don’t know if I should buy these eggs.
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