Sunday, December 16, 2018

Dinner

The day you left, 
I couldn’t stop eating: 

pasta, 
fish, 
pork, 
olives, 
ice cream. 

Bite after bite, 

I swallowed my sorrow: 
let it move my lips 
into something 
other than a 
silent scream. 

It sat 
heavy in my throat, 
refusing to move on, 
to be properly digested.
I still don’t know 
if this lump is 
dinner or 
despair. 

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