A homeless man eats convenience store fried chicken at dawn from a bench overlooking Coos Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A homeless man discovers a container of convenience store fried chicken at dawn on a sidewalk,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
examines it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sits down on a curb, eats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A homeless woman carries a drumstick of convenience store fried chicken at dawn in her right hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another drumstick protrudes from a back pocket like a colored comb from the 70s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember when men and women wore them in the back pockets of their flared jeans and never used them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I count three discarded but not completely empty containers of convenience store fried chicken at dawn during a walk with Elmer to the mudflats. One rests atop a mailbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leftovers for smart crows and meandering humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We know where the sustenance will take the crows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What about the humans?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What’s going on with all this ubiquitous convenience store fried chicken at dawn in my neighborhood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marvin Gaye asked something similarin an era<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when the red and white bucket of KFC, (original recipe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with all the fixins,’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Colonel looking on,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
served us Friday night dinner during the school year,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when my single mother treated us,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
too exhausted after teaching second grade to cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beagle instantly recognized that bucket when she brought it inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and waited patiently in the basement for skin and gravy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recent juxtaposition of fried chickens past and present<\/p>\n\n\n\n
deep fry something very portentous inside me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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