starving
a poem about craving the taste of a different life
i’m starving
for a life different than mine
starving
for a kind tongue to bite off
starving
to ensconce myself onto its soft obliging stump
starving
to taste and feed on and consume
the rich decay of someone else’s existence.
x EVIE
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starving 🍽️ a poem i wrote yesterday after learning a fun fact about a parasite (tongue-eating louse) that eats the tongue of a fish then attaches itself where that tongue used to be and becomes that fish’s new tongue. big thanks to @amykaypoetry for this fun fact hehhe and for hosting a workshop about beauty and horror and biology which got my creative juices flowing.
in the 15 mins we had to write, i thought.. what if that poor parasite just wanted to taste a different life (or maybe — as a psychiatrist, therapist, or english major might say — it’s not about the parasite at all)
