flour power

Cinse Bonino
May 19, 2023

I don’t like
white bread
the young woman
at the next table
told her friend
where I came from
that meant we were
not interested in dating
anyone WASPy because
we were Italian the other
dark meat and yet
I married white bread
the first time then I
tried other slices

Cinse Bonino

2023

#poetry #italianamerican #whitebread #relationships #marriage

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Cinse Bonino

Cinse, a former professor with a background in the psychology of human learning, writes nonstop, and is addicted to capturing the human experience in words.