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Processing Me

Processing Me

I am at the Wisconsin DMV
I am sitting on a plastic chair
I am scolded by a supervisor for
sitting instead of
proceeding directly to Photos

I am told to sit down in another plastic chair and
wait for my number to be called
I am DY72

I am in the process of being processed
Now I know how cheese must feel

For dverse and Poets United!

Cheesehead

I’m a newly minted Cheesehead.

Wisconsinites call anyone
from the other side of Lake Erie
“an East Coaster.”

They fretted that we would
never make it through a
Madison winter.

I replied with one word: “Buffalo.”

Slowly they realized that, not only is
New York State snowy and cold and
a cheese heaven in itself,

but I have a Midwestern pedigree.
Mom grew up in Iowa.
I’m willing to eat all the ‘pig corn’ they put on my plate!

For ABC Wednesday, brought to you by the letter “C,” and also on Poets United, my shelter from the storm.