By Elena Faverio
Yumyumyumyumyum.
I can eat everything that I want to eat.
Because I am hungry and it is time for me to eat.
Yumyum.
Once I have the taste for a thing, I must have it.
Sometimes it is crackers, sometimes it is a lot of crackers.
Dry things and spicy things and things that hurt when you swallow them down.
Have you heard of sparkling water?
Like that, I can swallow down liquid nitrogen and dry ice and isopropyl alcohol
At minus 130 degrees Farenheit.
Anything I want to drink, I can drink it.
I can out drink you and then drink your whole blood and bones, bone marrow racing through my guts like a bone straw treat.
Yumyumyum.
And sometimes if I want, I can digest all of these things
And sometimes if I want, I can let them sit in lumps.
My body becomes a mountain, becomes an earth, becomes the universe.
And the universe, as we all know
is expanding.
Yumyumyumyumyum.
Time to eat.
From “and some other third thing.” (The Weird Systers, 2023)
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