Hunger by Clare Sims
Hunger
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infernal hunger,
leave it be
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haven’t you had your fill?
feasted till brimming
bursting and swimming
in the after
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that tummy ache,
the sirens blare
and yet you continue on
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like some malnourished babe,
belly protruding as a spider’s egg
it will burst if you eat too much,
greedy child!
it will burst and scatter your insides across this littered floor
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what will you do then?
scoop them? sow them?
knowing you, you will collect them in your tiny hands
bit by bit
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with haste,
with care,
sweep it up!
so little is lost
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and lay it atop your tongue,
for as long as you can stand it.
push it down and let it slide out the dead zone
consume the waste girl, its all you’ve got left
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tuck it in at night
and kiss it to sleep.
don’t let it be forgotten.
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for it will remember if you do.
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