Eighties food.

Mike presents boil in the bag cod pie
with flat parsley garnish
propped like an apology.
Next time,
he'll cook something proper-
chicken sliced neat
with black bean sachets,
canned pineapple
and Carnation chaser,
the milk dripping sweet as mannah.
Years later, the memory
will find you suckling guilty
through a pierced lid,
thinking of the time
when your family was cleaved
like a knock down gammon
and you wept
over the freezer waffles.