is Eline Van der Velden real?

sure is good looking.

seems smart enough to hit the big-time.

seems to have an innovative bent.

Eline Van der Velden should

come up to my place

for a one-on-one close-up look-see.

I’ll feed her chicken feet

a favorite of my uncle Pete

from the old country.

I was ten when

uncle Pete was eighty and counting

cooking oily broth for soup

containing the agonized yellow-ochre feet

once belonging to one

presumed to be live chicken.

did old uncle Pete assume they'd be tasty?

I don’t know.

I used to know such things.

but now I don't know.

maybe I've chosen not to remember.

John Lennon said:

“nothing is real and nothing to get hung about”.

well, that's real enough for me.

waiting to hear from Eline Van der Velden.