any mall will do i promise

another pork in the night

remembering she does not eat meat

after a restaurant with no choices

and the leftover discussion of what it means to waste

food or lives or do you know how the animals

are treated in their little cages with their little lungs

they are starved injected with hormones raised in the dark

their throats are slit their tails are cut their mothers are killed

their fathers are never known and do not matter and

please do not look at your phone now no matter who is calling

don’t you care about me

don’t you care about us

hand held goodbyes sandwiched into the bill

the waiter cuts the card across my chest

do not forget about the chickens too

they are always forgotten

the roads are gnawing on empty

the trucks fill the stores

i am hungry she says

so

we sleep together one more time

until we are full

until we are not

until i try only greens

and become sick

how weak you are

how poor your parents

how much of an animal

you remain