The Knicknackery Issue Five - 2017 | Page 16

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a letter to imaginary future boyfriends

Alexandra Reisner

Hungarians eat gelatinous things

and I apologize in advance for any future dinners

you will have to endure with my parents

köröm pörkölt and the like, inherited dishes

of bone and claws and the stories

like the time my little sister asked

from the back of the car what sodomy was

after mom had taken us to see Hair

with my good Catholic girl of a friend.