I Want to Eat You

I want to eat you like a pill,

I want to swallow you whole like a glass of gasoline.

I want to eat you like a sloppy rib,

I want to lick you off the bone.

I want to love you like an animal,

I want to take your skin into my jaws.

I want to inhale you like a powder,

I want to cover myself in your electricity.

I want to eat you like an apple,

I want your juice to drip down my chin.

Pull me by my heavy hair,

Pour it down the back of my throat.

Without choice, without reason.

Demand I taste it as it hits my pink insides.

I want to eat you like a pill,

I want to eat you to make me better.

I want to love you like a girl,

I want it to melt my skin off.

And just like a little girl’s stomach would be,

My guts are empty for your body.

I’ve skipped all my green beans this week just for it.

That vacancy is embedded deep in my abdomen,

It’s stretched through my intestines and up my throat.

All that remains now is the acid.

All that remains is a flickering open sign.

The hunger growls to me to remind me.

It sings a begging hymn.

It calls to me even early in the morning,

Like a wolf that howls sometimes for the summer sun.

Like the incessant heat that cooks the earth’s dirt,

It never abates or surrenders.

It’s like the chocolate cookie my mother told me I couldn’t eat,

And also the deer that is turned to face the meadow.

I’m like the wolf that rounds the corner.

I’m like the wolf that can already hear how the muscle will sound when it tears from your thigh.

I’m running down my street on all fours,

There are piles of flesh lining the curb.

I have often felt like prey,

And now I will eat. 

Now, I will use my nails to tear your meat from your bones.

I will get it all stuck in my teeth.