Moving Breakfast

Moving Breakfast (by Sidney Goldfarb)

I get out of bed without breaking anything
I give my daughter Cheerios and bananas for breakfast
First I let her stand on the table
Then I let her put her foot into the cereal
I look into the mirror and say, "Sidney, you're no criminal."
I put on a necktie because I have one
I go outside and find myself in Chicago
I say, "Boston, you faker, cut that out!"
Then I see Lake Michigan boiling up at me like a billion white birds
And clouds of soot talking to one another above the skyscrapers
So I yell up to my daughter,
"Sara! Take your foot out of the cereal, you're in Chicago now!"
And she answers back,
"Cheer-i-ooos!"

(from Speech, for Instance, p. 53)