1.
An egg in a pan
Blackens and stinks.
The spaghetti is hard.
And you are sitting in a dirty room
Surrounded by things that were never yours.
2.
In the castle, Don Carlos and Rodrigo share
A red flank of venison, sheared of the fat.
They dig their fingers into it.
In Flanders, they are burning the fields,
And the screams of the cattle
Are like the knives sliding on the plate.
3.
The cardboard threads
Of packaged noodles
Plump with lukewarm tap water
Until they are almost elastic.
Buoyed in the orange water
They drift like dead jellyfish –
Behind you, the uneven drone
Of the empty white refrigerator.
4..
Sliced potato in a ring
Turning brown, smoking.
Red onions in a bowl.
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