Into the Soup

"Bum Soup", 5 x 7", oil on Ampersand Gessobord

Artsbridge Members Show, opening February 4, Prallsville Mill, Stockton, NJ

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"Bum Soup"

Bum Soup she said it was,

boiled potatoes in milky water,

chopped celery and egg,

oregano.

Salt and pepper.

Pin money saved

for Bingo,

bosomed, safe,

for after Mass where,

tissue on her head,

she would pray

for protection.

-Sharon Egan
for my grandmother, Francis Blandina Moroski Linetty