Picking Milk

standing in front of cooler at Sunflower

I wonder, a gallon or half?  one percent or two?

organic or in “natural” returnable bottles?  Horizon or

Farmers’?  this or that?  that or this?

cream or chocolate milk?  buttermilk or sour

cream for the chocolate cake?  salted butter

or unsalted?  cage free eggs, large or medium, brown

or white?  so I stand there in a stupor deciding

while people are dying in wartime, dying from

malnutrition; I stand here frozen in time,

all brain cells working full time, dumbfounded with

the stupidity of it all.