The Egg-Maker

The Egg-maker

I used to eat eggs every morning for breakfast

And every morning my mother would ask me

What do you want for breakfast?

And every morning I said eggs

Until one morning she asked me

What do you want for breakfast?

And I said

don’t you know what I want

and she said

How do I know if you don’t tell me?

The next morning, she asked me what I wanted for breakfast

I said pancakes

She died

My father and brother have never forgiven me for killing the egg-maker