they call it fasting
but why? things slow down
and your mouth
goes bone desert dry.
food, or the mere suggestion of it,
becomes a shooting star
hallucination that by day three
will recede far far far
into the background of your conscious thought.
fasting means the elimination of food particles
that your body never forgot.
fasting means resisting the urges
to get caught sneaking a snack
in some dark corner of the living room
fasting means letting pangs of hunger
roll over you like a mack truck
but instead of leaving you pancake flat
fodder for an air force of vultures
fasting brings you back to life
reincarnates those crucial cells
that have expired under stress
pushes out to sea all that your intestines
would never want to confess.
