Carbohydrates, Sugars, Proteins

Carbohydrates, Sugars, Proteins

Food is the basis of all poetry

yet if in excess

atrophies and degenerates any and all

creative act. It was said

of a bum wondering the streets

of Tenderloin, which

turned famous among his pals, for his

free triplets and

quatrains -

nearly as much as he

his writings, doodled on pizza boxes

used napkins and sometimes

paper, recycled and smooth

arose wide open before the eyes of Muni

users, at bus stops

and to less wary to these

forms of expression passersby, in

waste containers - it was said

his writings quenched his

soul and body part, that

more apt

to absorption, oblivion and given

to metabolism's

benevolence -

a mistake - flesh aims for

flesh

firstly the soul yearns

for water and food

and poetry is born - when it happens

and it wants – from the digestion of

pure carbohydrates, sugars, proteins,

be it in a gourmet condition

or in the end of its days.

© 2016, José Coelho