[New post] Eaters

Dave Bonta posted: " 1 i remember Japanese construction workers at a noodle bar joking with the queer foreigner who talked like a child and didn't get what word they were trying to teach when all they wanted to hear was an audible slurp 2 I don't eat" Via Negativa Eaters Dave Bonta Aug 26 Viejos comiendo sopa by Francisco de Goya 1 i remember Japanese construction workers at a noodle bar joking with the queer foreigner who talked like a child and didn't get what word they were trying to teach when all they wanted to hear was an audible slurp 2 I don't eat anything without a face she said however blank or fanciful it must have personality like a tomato that bites back she said and hugged herself tighter a black leather coat draped over her bones 3 they say if you eat chanterelles in the dark of the moon you gain the power to hear what the worms are whispering they say if you drink ginseng tea you'll have very expensive piss they say if you're starving you can eat the inner bark of trees but i feed the serpent in my gut nothing but eggs 4 i'll have the usual delectable products of animal misery comfort food isn't it 6 Goya's old people eating soup at the Prado a year after the death of the butcher of Guernica and 12-year-old me shocked at the potential horror in something so primordial learning how wholly consumption can consume us Comment Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Via Negativa. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://www.vianegativa.us/2022/08/eaters/ Powered by Jetpack