Malak Mattar, Untitled (detail), 2024, charcoal on paper
Chopsticks
I like to eat from a bowl
with sticks, I measure
my hunger by how well they work:
at first I can’t quite get enough rice
between the tips to make it worthwhile,
but a little practice and my stomach filling
I slow down,
I get bigger loads in;
then I sit back & poke
the few grains that still cling to the bowl.
I pretend they are a people in famine.
I lift them up, one by one, out
_ _of the bowl, I feed them my tongue.
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Geof Hewitt
Geof Hewitt edited the remarkable anthology Quickly Again Here. (1975)
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