August 11, 2020
447: We Eat Out Together
August 11, 2020
447: We Eat Out Together
We Eat Out Together
by Bernadette Mayer
My heart is a fancy place Where giant reddish-purple cauliflowers & white ones in French & English are outside Waiting to welcome you to a boat Over the low black river for a big dinner There’s alot of choice among the foods Even a tortured lamb served in pieces En croute on a plate so hot as a rack Of clouds blown over the cold filthy river We are entitled to see anytime while we Use the tablecovers to love each other Publicly dishing out imitative luxuries To show off poetry’s extreme generosity Then home in the heart of a big limousine
"We Eat Out Together" by Bernadette Mayer, from A BERNADETTE MAYER READER by Bernadette Mayer, copyright © 1992 Bernadette Mayer. Used by permission of New Directions.