The Crossover

Why We Only Ate Salad for Thanksgiving

Because every year

Grandma makes

a big delicious dinner

but this year

two days before

Thanksgiving

she fell off

her front stoop

on the way

to buy groceries

so Uncle Bob

my mom’s younger brother

(who smokes cigars

and thinks he’s a chef

because he watches

Food TV)

decided he would

prepare a feast

for the whole family

which consisted of

macaroni with no cheese

concrete-hard cornbread

and a greenish-looking ham

that prompted Mom

to ask if he had any eggs

to go along with it

which made grandma laugh so hard

she fell again, this time

right out of her wheelchair.