HANSEL PREPARES FOR THE FUTURE
Bread isn’t good enough;
he understands that now.
It’s too soft, too porous, too
yielding, and he knows now
that what is scattered at night
can be gone by morning.
Whenever he goes outside now
he keeps his eyes on the ground,
scanning for something
so cunning and indelible
that next time someone
sends him away
he will have what he needs
to resist the thieving world.
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