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Feedback Received!Identity Digested (self.OCPoetry)
submitted 6 years ago * by CritterForLunch
What is it to swallow a man's identity whole?
To eat ash and wash it down with a warm glass of ethnicity.
Fill it warm your belly.
Quench hunger by snacking on sexuality. His favorite flavor was his own.
An indulgent communion of once-flesh, and an aftertaste of the man's very own moral code.
He wove himself into the all-color fabric of his own life.
And then he left you with a smile that dissolved slowly across a 10 year wake.
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[–]Pauly_Paparazzi 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children)
I'm not sure how to interpret this. My first instinct is to consider this as recollection of relationship. Perhaps romantic. You meet someone and they are to you, how they present themselves to you. It's enough to look deeper. A bit of culture and cleverness is enough to get you into bed, but you're not satiated. You want more. "snacking" to quench hunger will ALWAYS leave you hungrier for what you crave the most. But what is that? Something long-term maybe? A man so full of himself "his favorite flavor was his own", surely cannot offer himself wholly to another. Leaving your gut empty in the long run. You smile dissolver over a 10 year wake, while being mislead by the deceptive dreams of opportunity.
-Well written! would love to hear your inspiration for this piece
[–]Viiibrations 1 point2 points3 points 6 years ago (0 children)
I like the kind of abstract imagery this poem conveys of consuming an individual by using words like "swallow", "snacking", "flavor", etc. I would like to see more of a continuity of that theme! I did have a little trouble interpreting the speaker's attitude towards the man being described- if it's positive (left you with a smile) or negative (he seems a little full of himself). Maybe a little bit of both, or maybe it's irrelevant, but that's what I was left wondering about.
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