Hang it, I will bless all this
food myself
by ingesting it—
let greases
smear a little, like
oil for anointing this pitiful
hunger for significance,
let juices dribble
and quench
the absurd thirst
for ritual—no silver, elbows
sprawled akimbo on the table
like galactic arms spiraling
with black
holes at their awful, visceral centers.
May I too starve
so majestically, become a body so
ruthlessly ecumenical.
Nature dabs
with no napkins; it abhors
only ceremony—
and our best sense
of eternity, which glows from those
faintly haloed edges
emerges
from the very places
where it vanishes.
