Lunch Duty

30/30 poetry prompt turn a mundane task into poetry

Clocked in 

Set up begins 

Bag-filled wheeled 

trash cans 

mark each pair 

of tables 

boom & dust pan twins

see each other across the room 

the mop sisters acknowledge 

one another from the other corner

Silver carts dash away 

Nourishment on top 

for the tiniest scholars

Lines of kids enter

Silence switches to sound

Adults readied to maintain 

the latter

Different grades change over 

many minutes 

Their whirlwind leave bones, pineapples, and 

applesauce in their wake

Broom and mop in constant motion

switch places

Trash can slide in and out

bags change 

Clock strikes 12, the cafeteria kids cleared