A poem for Thanksgiving “Pigging Out” by Wanda Coleman: –for Austin at the restaurant we sit down to wine we are so hungry the crisp appetizers/early loves and lightly seasoned salad we’ve developed appetites for the garlic & onion of life gorging on a main course of dissatisfaction over frustrated creativity in economic plight he chews over his brooklyn childhood i pick at the tedium of youthful watts summers we eat away the lousy jobs stunting our talent we eat away the hot smog-filled day we eat away the war in the headlines we eat away the threat of nuclear holocaust we eat away love-threatening pressures we eat away the human pain we see/feel/ are stymied by [pride is such thin dessert] we eat until our smiles return until fat and happy (From Imagoes © 1983 by Wanda Coleman. Reprinted by kind permission of Black Sparrow Books and David R. Godine, Publisher.)
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:02:30 +0000
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