Giada Rotundo
I Saw Your Husband on a Dating App
I tried to be healthy, so
I made this oat-free
cauliflower based
hot cereal. It professed
to be strawberry
hazelnut flavored, but
it was nonexistent
on the strawberry
hazelnut and
heavy on the
hot cauliflower.
After one -instantly regretted-
taste, I dumped
the rest–
sort of like what you did
to me, when you
stood me up on our
first overnight date. I had
ordered a men’s body
wash gift set for
you to use, so you
wouldn’t have to smell
like white peach & orange
blossom, and put
lasagna in the crockpot
that morning before I
left for work, so
you could have
a hot home
cooked meal; except you
didn’t call or
come, so I drank
your glass of Chardonnay, too, reactivated
my Bumble profile, and
swiped past my
friend’s husband.
On Valentine’s Day,
I tried to make chocolate
covered strawberries
for myself at
home, with a
recipe that calls
for semi-sweet chocolate
chips and Nutella.
Maybe if I ate cauliflower, instead,
and lost these stubborn last
10 pounds,
I’d have a chance at real love.
Valerie Frost is a Garden State native. She lives in Central Kentucky with her twin three-year-olds. Her poems have appeared in the Eastern Iowa Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Thimble Literary Magazine, and elsewhere.
Giada Rotundo lives and works near Milan, Italy. She has collaborated with the Visioni Altre Gallery, Atelie22, Pepita Ramone Space, Open Space Art Living, Metodo Milano Artist-run Space, Tirabasso Gallery, Passepartout Unconventional Gallery, Artepassante Project, Benjamin Mac Gallery, Tail Online Gallery and Galleriazro. www.giada.atwebpages.com