I eat when I’m hungry
I eat when I’m sad
I eat when I’m happy
I eat when I’m mad

I eat when it’s cold
I eat when it’s hot
I eat when the feathers are proud
I eat when they’re shot

I eat when the wind rasps
I eat when it drops
I eat when the fierceness
Ceases to plot

I eat when my luck’s in
I eat when it stops
I eat when the moon shines
I eat when it’s blocked

I eat when I’m laughing
I eat when I’m lost
I eat when the fizz
Has turned into frost

I eat when the vessel empties itself
I eat when the whirlwind grins, and takes off

I eat when he rests his hand on my thigh
I eat when the walls shake
I eat when they cry

I eat when I simmer as I enter the room
I eat when I create our own little doom

I eat when those beasts rattle their cage
I eat when they eulogise, centre stage

I eat up the heart, the lungs and the breast
I eat them vigour, with pride and regret

I eat to soothe the sorriest soul
I eat to feed the feline, the feminine, the foul

I eat because eating is a thing in itself
I eat for nourishment; for death:
I could just about do without

I eat when the kaleidoscope claws its way through
I eat when it resets to this requisite humdrum, obsolete view

I eat because I am Warrior
I eat because I am wan
I eat because answering the telephone
Is a battle for one

I eat because my face is masked
By the screen
I eat because my insides SCREAM,
“We are rotten, you no longer pristine!”

I eat because I am charged
I eat because I’m the best
I eat because no one knows as I sit on my arse
Close to death

I eat because OH GOD THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO
I eat to beat those voices that always get through

I eat because I feel like I’m an unstoppable fraud
I eat because, well, who gives a shit about this broad?

I eat because I’m FUCKING HAPPY!
I eat because I’m FUCKING NOT!
I eat because all around me there are babies and snot

I eat because I’m not ready
I eat because resting is rot
I eat because all around me everyone is everything
I am not

I eat when I consider all the paths I must take
I eat because this might be just one huge fucking MISTAKE

I eat because eating is bloody good
I eat because we are all so misunderstood

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