Banquet

Recall
the finest moment of my life

I’m meat
and potatoes for you

Feebler than is 
good for me
after you’re done 
eating me

I have spasms and
I have chills
I’m bone
and scrap
All the fat’s gone
and I’m hungry enough
to scarf you down

Scarf you right down
to sweetbreads
and poppy

We went feasting
back and forth
all night
like I can’t do now
and try not to remember

I once joined you 
in a banquet
after long starvation

oh tender was I
and you were tender too
and as succulent as the memory remains
it is pain as much as satisfaction