TRUTH Vigilante: Ew, Icky. How Gross?

Don’t Choke

Once bitten,
thirty-two times chewed.

Easily digestible.

No time.
I’ll drink my lunch.

Now I’m not shy,
but bit.

I can easily quit,

view their spectacle
at the trough.


5.9.23
30 words, free verse

I made it up. So what? ▼

You’d be shy if you saw the boars with muddy faces, eating, eating, until they eye you.
Where is the farmer? Zookeeper? What is a smaller animal to do?

I’m not going up a food chain, it’s clear. Why do you fear?

It’s clear why we’re here, different motivations.
Squeal.

Easily provoked by slurpers that sidle up to that tempting buffet. Why the spread, again?
Rhetoric-Al.

Yeah, what could I know. I’m a good study. Objective beyond the emotional idiocy.