Cheese Snaps

We ate a barrelful of broken bits
Of cookies, pretzel sticks, and candy bars,
Some of them hollow, some the shape of stars,
Along with nectarines, dried, free of pits,
And cheese snaps. When we exercised our wits
And made rude jokes about cheap snacks on Mars
Threats suddenly came up: the trunks of cars,
A bright school blazer — one that almost fits.

They bullied us, raked us over the coals,
Forgot the good, embraced the undertow
That whirled and sucked them helplessly below,
Complaining we had eaten all the rolls.
The three of us, good fellows and good souls,
We still remembered how to let things go.