Can you get that?
Those crumbs? Corner-lip licking
All teeth and gums
What can you taste?
Is it salty? Slippery smacking
All rich and malty
How do you take it?
Two sugars and milk? Coffee-breath bitter
Throat-coating silk
Can you hear that too?
Hot springboard toasting. Quick, get the butter
Gold oily boasting
See how it drips now?
‘Tween your knuckles it sits. Tea-towel grease staining
Slick bounce of lips
Can you see that?
Velvet yolk hiding. Tummy-growl tease me
Silver and gold gliding
Watch how you feel now,
Dancing morning light. The fast-breaking ritual
To start a day right.