Thursday, June 30, 2011

The Teleology of Food


Strange how when you change your diet
foods grow sentient – wake, and riot:
greens and roots and fruits resist.
A broccoli floret’s a fist

raised angrily: the steamy doom
of its demise fills up the room.
A carrot lies, mute, in its thickness –
powerless against the quickness

with which it is julienned.
An eggplant mourns its bitter end –
its funereal purple is a cry
against its sentence: slice and fry.

Truth falls off a grocery shelf.
Life exists to eat itself.





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