The morning chex-press

I remember mornings before school

Eating Chex Cereal – rice, corn or wheat

Milk with three teaspoons of sugar (four, if mom’s not looking)

My sisters around the table

Reading The Morning Chex-Press

Good news only on the back of a cereal box

I would construct a three flavored fort around my bowl

Until mom would side with Kathy and Barb

And insist they have one to read, too

I wonder what they’d print now?

What they’d consider good?

What propaganda corporate CEOs would allow?

Either way, reading good news on a cereal box

Beats the morning anger on my news feed

And I can slurp the sweet milk from the bottom of the bowl

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