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Detritivore

Updated: Aug 6, 2021

It’s some second day of a month and I haven’t

had breakfast yet

My food stares

up at me for it indeed has

eyes .They’re open.

When mine are barely, for their stink brings along tears worse than an onion.

Grievance brings along tears when I see my people with open eyes yet dormant bodies.

They’re the signal of illness, those bulky eyes.

They’re death as one lies down motionless and I stand above. With a hungry body yet a grieving mind.

I’m not hungry...

And to eat is to digest and to

digest is to decompose and to

decompose is to give back.

In some second day of a month,

I have to go out to eat

With its smell burning the inside of my nose

Devour my own

To give back to the world

Which served me nothing

But flesh for meals so far

Consumers…

With utensils polished

Would never realize

It’s hard cleaning up messes

A cycle ever turning...

I wish I wasn’t hungry

I wish I had a fork

I wish my parents hadn’t died

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