There is No Escaping the Inedible
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There will always be a dish
that can’t be choked down:
the giant lima bean, or,
the slimiest of oysters.

Uruguayan mystics, the most
profound, say: each utterance
proffers purpose and accident.
So if a syllable or two

bellies up to the bar, boisterous
for shots of Patrón
and emerges in a blur,
forgetting its noun, all the better

to eat you with, my dear
says the tricky wolf of language:
what’s meant to be
will happen, anyway, with/

out the crutch of cliché.

 

 

From Hilarity by Patty Seyburn, 2009

New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, Dept. of English,
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