Nutritionally Correct Comfort Food for Fantasy Creatures

by Robert William Shmigelsky

At enchanted Mountainside Lodge,
care home for the elderly,
to pursed lips and menus remembered
soup and sandwiches are served
every two days every two evenings.
Starting this week on Monday,
cream of conjured red tomato and grilled magic cheese sandwiches.
On Wednesday,
magic bean soup and golden egg salad sandwiches.
Friday,
cream of bean stalk and chicken feast sandwiches.
Sunday,
Cretan beef barley and golden trout sandwiches.
Tuesday,
Strega noodle soup and hippogriff sandwiches.
Cream of mandrake and shaved roast roc, stone soup
and sliced sphinx, cream of gnome potato & chimera cheddar
and behemoth ham salad.

Seven soup and sandwiches days later,
we’re back on tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches–
on Monday.