"Crumbs" by Hal Sirowitz (5:45 PM)

From The United States of Poetry episode "A Day in the Life."

Copyright Washington Square Arts, 1995.

Don't eat any more food in your room, Mother said. You'll get more bugs. They depend on people like you. Otherwise, they would starve. But who do you want to make happy, your mother or a bunch of ants? What have they done for you? Nothing. They have no feelings. They'll eat your candy. Yet
you treat them better than you treat me.
You keep feeding them.
But you never offer me anything.

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