no one told me there'd be whole wheat bagels (2009)

no one told me there'd be whole wheat bagels
and bowls of fruit salad with pineapples and grapes
grown men in suits, laughing like apes
over some joke about sex with someone's mother

no one told me, so i didn't bother
showing up until the end
and so now, out of fear, i wake up early and i attend
each such gathering of apes in search of breakfast