Food

food issues

She is eating
She is chewing
She is weeping

The tears do not register
only the bread dipped in sugar
and the chewing

She is hungry
but not for this.

Nobody taught her
how to connect.
Anger was subsumed
in cigarettes
and spaghetti dipped in gravy.

Please help me!
She does not say.
Please, I am dying!

There is only the sound of chewing
and the tears which are swallowed whole.