Garbanzos | Trent Gurney

Pork, garbanzo beans
Potatoes.
A delightful Dutch oven dinner
I crack a joke.
They laugh.
They laugh a lot.
"You're funny," a stranger tells me.
As she snorts, her beans
Fall from her mouth.
They hit her plate with a loud plop.

I'm funny?
I hear the plop of garbanzos.
In that splatter of beans, I see
I can be.
Funny funny me.