Breakfast Ice Cream

at the end of the day
mom put the empty milk bottles on the porch
for the milkman to take when he
made his deliveries first thing in the morning
three little girls were at the front door waiting
they could hear the clip clop of his horses hoofs
as it pulled Pippys wooden wagon down their street
Pippy would always smile and talk to the girls
he would twist his nose put his hand over his mouth
and pull out his false teeth it was like magic
to these little girls who spent the rest of the day
trying to figure out how they could get their teeth
to come out by twisting their noses
the top of the bottle frozen cream was scooped out
put in a small bowl and sprinkled with sugar
breakfast ice cream on a cold Ohio morning