At the Bottom of a Grocery List

By Margaret Charlton

Chocolate

White Tea Pomegranate

Coconut Milk

Eggs

Chicken Breast

Peanut Butter

Blueberries

I buy blueberries so the lady at the register thinks I’m healthy, but I cannot stomach them anymore. They have long turned sour over the last years with a clinging taste of youth and innocence that mixes like a baby bump plump babe.

She tells me the blueberries are sweet this year and juicier than ever.

I agree, but I will not know for certain as they will rot away in my fridge instead of my stomach. A broken reminder, a fragment of yesteryear left behind in the cold.