pop quiz: uh, lettuce?
POP QUIZ, HOTSHOT:
What is this?
A) a piece of Greek salad
that Chicken referred to as crunchy spinach,
licked,
and then declared
"huh! Pretty tasty,
but I prefer the bell peppers."
B) a blankey
that Chicken lay
ever-so-tenderly
atop the slumbering form
of his new best friend,
a pitted Kalamata olive named
Little Olive.
C) 4 days old,
in a tupperware in my fridge,
labeled
"LITTLE OLIVE & BLANKEY
DO NOT THROW AWAY"
because Chicken wants to sit next to his new best friend
every night at dinner.
D) All of the above.