The Vet Wife’s Refrigerator

The Vet Wife’s Refrigerator
The Vet Wife’s Refrigerator

A scream from the kitchen. The thud of a faint.

She sighs and arises and walks with restraint. Her neighbor lays peaceful, eyes fixed in a stare

She’s passed out in front of the new Frigidaire.

She looks at the rack with eggs in its keep Winking up at her’s the eye of a sheep.

There’s a bottle of PenStrep near the Swanson’s Pot Pies And down in the crisper’s a bagful of flies.

The butter tray’s filled …