Breakfast - Nasser Hussain A breakfast is an old man with sunshine caught between his teeth unattractively wishing you you get him some more coffee A breakfast is signpost on your daily paper route you read it eaten forget it and move on A breakfast is the most important sneer of the day ham and egg ham and egg and hams and eggs scram ham sand eggs man damned daily like sad papers This is true hot grill and spatula white handle and memory of the stuck pan hand memory burn hurts now and not later bacon skaters on lumberjack griddles adam and eve on a raft writing riddles and I whittle words into rhymes then I don’t try for a while and recall ham sand egg soar easy burnt oats on side this is a casual breakfast breakdown break essentially gaudy poetry and the egg sand hammers pound yet another breakfast out uncaring more coffee please more coiff sheep leads more cough lotion reliefs …a brief cheese dream omlette and I rise flap sleep from pancake eyes           this is this                                       breakfast time Nasser Hussain is currently getting a master's in englit and creative writing at u of windsor comments about this article? give us feedback