September 2017 poems thoughts life stories

Freaky Flashback

I was frying some chicken just the other day
And as my mind often does

My mind took me back in time and made me laugh

My mind showed me a vision from Japan over 30 years ago

Here in the south in America

Fried chicken is almost as necessary as air

I had only been in Japan a couple of months

Which especially then was an eternity for no friend chicken

For me...

Anyway

I was out in town and I smelled the unmistakable smell of chicken frying

So I looked around trying to find a heavenly taste from home

I went to every shop on the strip

No fried chicken!!!

This can't be

I reassured myself that I was smelling fried chicken

So I sniffed around to find the source

Which was in fact the first shop that I looked at

The cook had in fact just thrown a whole chicken on his chopping block and did things to that chicken with a meat cleaver that would have gotten him beaten down in my Mama's kitchen

Another reason that I had failed to identify my beloved fried chicken

Best dayam fried chicken that I had ever had in two months!!!

It was just weird eating this dayam good fried chicken that had no recognizable pieces

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        EdwinBrown9®™
                 9/14/17