Natalie King
Breakfast at the World Hunger Café
Slide into a booth
At the World Hunger Café
We stir our hot coffee
And stir up the planet
Waitress appears
(hemp apron tied over combat fatigues)
What’ll it be?
Two orders of grilled distribution
(if there’s enough to go around)
World peace, sunny side up
Ecofeminist pancakes
(with organic maple syrup)
Sustainable development, overeasy
Biodiversity omelet
Toasted political stability
Bottomless empathy
(if it’s fresh)
I know it’s a tall order
But we’ve got a full table
And we’re really starving this morning
0 Honourable Mention, Diana Brebner Prize 2003
Arc 51, Winter 2003
Arc 51, Winter 2003
