Sunday, December 11, 2005

The poem in this subway car

I am talking to you about poetry
and you say
when do we eat.
The worst of it is
I'm hungry too.
--alicia partnoy

Reading this pulls me strongly into the head of the speaker--i imagine the situation and the conversation very vividly--but I can't envision the next moment. How is the speaker responding? Does she stop talking to eat? Is she abandoning her work? Or is this an escape from her mind into world?

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