the secret of Anthony’s great cooking
Eugene Goldin
the secret of Anthony’s great tasting food
were the fallen ashes from his constantly lit cigarette
but it wasn’t just any smoke
it was from his particular brand
which he never shared
in fact, he’d go through the trouble
of taking all of them out of his pack
and putting them into that of another
see, Anthony protected his brand
more than his own life
which, as we all know
he took
in that lonely room
above a darkened bar in
Kaysersberg-Vignoble.
Eugene Goldin is a poet living in New York. His poems have been published in Poetry Quarterly, The American Aesthetic, and Tipton Poetry Journal.