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Hungry? Grab a Snickers/Insatiable

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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It is true

When they say

You're not you

When you're hungry

It ruins your day

When your belly is empty

Of plentiful joy

Then the slightest disturbance

Can leave you annoyed

And in dealing with others

Be flippant and curt

And in making progress,

Listless and inert

It reverts you to primacy,

Primitive need

And converts sharing, caring

To hording and greed

And will lead you to do

What you wouldn't dare deign

To consider permissible

Ways to attain

Your next meal

When you hear

Only your stomach rumbles

Succumbing to them

Just as the

Cookie crumbles

Until irrepressible

Monsters emerge

To devour whatever in sight

Can encourage

You to

Once again

Crack a mollified smile

Until the resurgence

Beguiles the bile

And after a while

Elapses, redaction

For while it grasps

At your brief satisfaction

You think only of

What remains

You can ration

As later-on's pangs

Boomerang

Right back atch'ya

The moment the flavor

Can no more be savored

And cravings enslave you again

To the anger

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