In This Mess Together | Poem
In This Mess Together
The hungry human stomach,
Speaks sotto voce,
It is the bassoon,
In the orchestra;
Or the slime-covered,
Water-smoothed,
Boulder one foot beneath the green waves
rushing madly downriver;
It is a red balloon skinned with led,
Never rising,
It has no string,
No rubbery-knot at the bottom,
No advertising for "Hendry's Hardware" on it;
It is the story with
no book to hold it
together,
Hunger is the body begging the mind,
Saying,
"We are in this mess
together"
And the mind replies:
"Beggar! I will do you a favor!"
And the stomach growls happily all the way
to
the
cafe.