Poetry Scraps: How To Break Up Ramen Noodles

How to break up Ramen Noodles

My daughter can’t

seem to break them up

she comes to us asking

for help and I tell her

to remember the trick

I taught her

when she leaves, my husband

asks, “What’s your trick?”

“I feel along

the bag  looking for weakness

in the structure, like finding

a person’s insecurities

and then start to chip away

at them.”

“Huh,” he turned

his head to the side

“I just pick them up and snap

them in half.”


What do you think?