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Hunger (Free verse) by Dovina

(Imagine a single line of text in a circle that you have to turn as you read - the word “Hunger” at the center. You can’t determine where to start, so start reading anywhere.) I am hungry You present me a plate of food Sensations arise I see food, smell it, anticipate eating it Volition comes into use I pick up utensils I indulge in the pleasure of eating As my stomach fills, desire decreases My mind turns to other desires New sensations Mental formulations arise

Dovina 26-Feb-05/6:51 AM
You recently told someone that the 10 you gave him was the only sincere 10 you gave that day. Perhaps your comment flows from the same kind of reasoning that uses “your” as a contraction for “you are” because it’s “funny.” Or maybe it’s from the sort of logic that posits an implied proposition in this poem and than rents in vulgarities on the falsity of your straw man. Or the same kind of insight that claims world hunger as a an argument against what this poem is saying.

Oh, guru of sensibility and logic, please teach on.




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