13 Ways To Drink Chocolate Milk
By Justin Heazlewood
Published 22 August 2025
1
The word Lisa is etched into a tree
and I feel ill.
2
If I had a straw I would breathe
some life into my milk.
3
She says hello, he ignores me
and no one is drinking chocolate milk.
4
It’s too sweet
like melted soap.
5
Another boy drinking my brand.
4° of refrigeration.
6
The chocolate milk doesn’t know
that I’m preoccupied
with listening to blackbirds.
7
He’s got plain milk and a tennis ball.
It could be an apple.
8
My chocolate milk and I did not guess that
girl would finish her tea and have a limp.
9
This milk is unnatural.
The corners don’t fit my hand.
10
My chocolate milk has faded since I bought it.
11
All I want is someone to agree with me
that it’s cold, so I can throw my milk
away.
12
I can look at my chocolate milk on the
internet.
13
If I drank my chocolate milk and no one
cared, did I really want it in the first
place?
Write a poem in the style of my poem 13 Ways To Drink Chocolate Milk.
It is a mix of observations about the food you are consuming and what
is going on around you in the public place where you are consuming it.
Justin Heazlewood
#30in30 writing prompt
Poetry is abstract.
It speaks to the silver lining of the soul.
It’s prose with line breaks.
Lyrics in need of a mandolin.
A stranger’s dream packed into a carob square.
