Eater

Dave BontaAnxious

o belly make busy lips ravel the feast

dinner is singing in me while I sleep:

eat the dead eat the damned eat on the road eat the nasty part

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Saturday 22 June 1667.

Dave Bonta

SourceLicence:CC BY-SA 4.0

Mood:: Anxious
Topics:: feast, road, dinner, belly

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Dave Bonta's "Eater" is about appetite as something older and stronger than the speaker's own will. The poem begins by addressing the belly directly, almost like a prayer or a command: make the lips busy, untangle the feast. Then the scene shifts inside the body.

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