Dinnertime (Detestable Maw, Gaping Maw, Your Maw Like Mine)

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.



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