Showing posts with label beast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beast. Show all posts

Monday, 18 April 2011

Eat

Eat
Cheat hunger
From plate
To mouth
Devour
Envelope
Most necessary verb
Without
Cannot work
Eat

Notice how the word 'eat' book-ends the verse, like jaws, consuming all the words in between. 'Eat' shows us the hunger of the eater, like the teeth of a devouring beast bearing down upon the English language as though to envelope it forever in the belly of this most primal instinct: eating. Or did I just write the word 'eat' twice for the hell of it?