North by Northwestern

Sweet and vaguely

Fruit
Flavored

with
the cavernous crunch
of a honey-combed, hollow
oat.

I throw it in a bowl.

I savor the clinging and clanging
of fragile
wheat and corn
crisscrossed, puffed pillows
for ants
on porcelain.

I drown it in 1 percent.

Killer.