Hexagonal Cheese Scones

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The cheese scones from
My local supermarket
Are hexagonal.

It’s not for packing.
Their film-covered rectangle
Leaves corner gaps.

Are perhaps they made
In honeycomb baking tins?
Baked by bumblebee?

Or else it’s branding.
A visual identity.
Trying to sell more.

A six-sided scone
Does not taste better to me,
Nor warm up faster.
The butter doesn’t care
For the shape of your scone,
Mr. John Sainsbury.

A crumbly hexagonal cheese scone, buttered, on a blue-and-white plate, with a single bite taken out of one half.

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