A Break in Play

Museum food is the best version of museum food,

it eschews the Pixar template of a few jokes thrown

in for the grown ups. Dough not meant for brick ovens,

two wrap halves a thoughtless waste of a two for the

price of one, apple slice and peanut butter, just an

apple slice and peanut butter, ground pepper chopped 

into lines, dippin dots wedge salad, molten Skittles in a

zombie bowl to dunk your head in, breadless crusts, 

egg flavour granola bars, pretzel covered yoghurts. 

An untested dining concept: sit down restaurant serving 

museum  food at restaurant prices, 

where the most grown up thing you can do is tear 

open a sachet of balsamic dressing 

without getting it all over yourself,

this you do to wet the extremely dry tenders

in lieu of the honey ranch buffalo mustard bleu sriracha cottage cheese

or whatever there was a run on you don't care

and can't, blinded by strip lights over the sauce in bins

and the strain for the boy 

blending in with the trees you can't see for the wood.