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(Ab)Normal
January 13, 2013
Since the beginning of existence
organisms have needed to eat.
It shouldn’t be something we have to think about.
If we have food, we should eat it with no questions.
I have lost that luxury.
Eating requires work
measuring, adding, dividing
Needles, a weird, clear solution
that smells like a condensed hospital
Eating requires blood.
But while I should be annoyed
with those extra requirements,
they become normal.
To me, at least.
I don’t remember what it feels like to have what I lost.
© Samantha B., Hartford, VT
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