Poem
No Cheese
"Don't judge" he began
before telling our server
"I know it's weird,
but can you get me
a pizza with no cheese?"
Then came a list
of ingredients for a good life:
To hang, to vent, to laugh
with friends I trust.
Things he feared I lacked.
I nodded along,
every claim wrong.
What he does not know is
that he is one of the ingredients.
I, too, enjoy
pizza with no cheese.