Frustrated

[Richard]

Hey Janine,
This poem has some nice images in it. However, some of the other images are a bit unclear. I'll go into more detail below:

The smell of save for later
hard boiled eggs
throughout the house
made me hungry
so I downed
a glass of water instead,-Something about the speaker denying her hunger made me depressed. Is this hinting that the speaker is suffering from an eating disorder?
knowing full well
those chicken fingers
breaded in Southern Biscuit Flour
made late yesterday
awaited chilled and firm.-The fact that this stanza is all about food made me think the speaker might be someone's mother or wife. I know that might be a bit sexist of me, so I apologize if I am incorrect. The food imagery is well done (pardon the pun).

Our smiles are different.
I couldn't tell if his meant
he liked it when the anvil fell
on my skull yesterday -You should be clearer here. I think you mean some sort of embarrassment or fight, so describe it in more vivid detail.
or he's remembering last week:
still able to tap into my
let-me-please-you programming -I like this line and the previous one. It sums up well why the relationship in the poem is in trouble.
by winning a coaxing,
my tipping up just a half
of his very cold,
Founder's Dirty Bastard.

Maybe he's won some sort of contest
in that land where I once danced the border
as a coin-fringed gypsy, -I don't quite get the first three lines in this stanza. The speaker seems to indicate that the person she is talking about is in some sort of fantasy, but I don't understand the gypsy reference. May be you should think of a way to tie this back to the food imagery.
but it could be
he's getting ready to leave for the day,
thinking he's made another new friend
who likes to take his money, -I can't help but think this is some sort of reference to prostitution. Am I right?

but I won't kill his innocence
by telling him
one termite, over time,
can devour an entire love shack.-I love this last stanza. It's a strong ending, but I agree with vagabond that you should drop the word "love" from it.

After reading this an additional time, I am starting to wonder if the speaker here is a waitress just trying to impress a customer to get a tip. Anyway, this is a nice piece, and I look forward to seeing where you take it from here.

Cheers,
Richard