Another in my series of poetic essays / essayistic poems / surreal narrative articles has been published by the Versopolis Review, spreading its tentacles across the European webways. This one is about eating, well the monthly theme set by head editor Ana Schnabl, is about Food. So I wrote about the temptation of cannibalism, both literally and otherwise.
https://www.versopolis.com/times/essay/756/on-optioning-cannibalism
You are what is eaten. The food before you, where did it disappear to? Once fresh, now packaged, possibly tinned. Possibly eternal. Now within, lost inside of you. Allowing to move, to crawl, to cry. Never to be seen again. Can you eat choice? What are the boundaries of selectiveness? How the gluten intolerant must have once suffered, throughout all of human history.….