Hanger Takes Hold

the silly (but very serious) experience of forgetting to eat until it's too late

I feel the chemicals in my blood boil like the pipping pipin’ sun.

I become what I always have been, a ravenous animal, starved and suppressed.

A bear hoping to score.

Quiet now or say something you’ll regret.

A granola bar—a mockery as two peanuts are to a stellar’s jay.

I’m faint and furrowed and weak as can be.

Catch me low energy then coked up like a business beast.

You’re saying the absolute worst thing in the world.

Don’t you know my speech is immobilized?

I smell the matzah ball soup cookin’ too far away from me.

What’s a girl gotta do for veggie broth galore?

Can’t seem to remember my lunch…

Can’t seem to forget about lunch.

The dog thinks I eat all day.

When one fridge door closes, another one opens.

This would be an opportune time to grab that matzah by the balls.