Lines To Be Said After Soup
By Henry Bailey Stevens

Lines TO BE SAID AFTER SOUP
By Henry Bailey Stevens

With lentils, tomatoes and rice,
Olives and nuts and bread,
Why do I have to gnaw on a slice
Of something bloody and dead?

With honey, banana and pear,
Orange and corn and beet,
Why do I feel I must tear
Into some carcass meat?

How does my nose go astray?
What in my instinct warps,
That I have to ravish and slay
In order to feed on a corpse?