Hoping for a round number
I looked around to steal
or beg from the other 29
to build the pan and
make just one more
I know people
and their sweet teeth
and shortfalls of shortbread
or chocolate chips
are keenly noticed
because of its smaller size
a thirtieth would have been
picked up frowned at
and put back 29 times
braking into smaller pieces
as it slipped into the bowels
of the jar
so I left it at 29
a palmful of sweet debris
still waits for someone
at the bottom of the crockery
just not the larger wreckage
of a bad idea
the sealed fate
of a discounted cookie
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