I stare into a belly through the eyes of a beast Made a toast to life and commence the feast We chewed up mitten creams till our mouths would ooze and foul Devour man from meat, sucking marrow from the bone Washed it down with wine, Vintage 1953 Leaned back in our chairs, sucked a bone and picked our teeth Gazing at our bellies, I watched the unfolding of time Stricken by a bolt eyed brother, there's no way that child is mine Silence gripped the table till the sobbing began And her console and the scolding from the wives of all the men To glare down at the plates, faces flushing red The women now demanded a platter with my head The knowledge in my head fit the anger in my heart The vomit in my hands meant the chocking will soon start I grabbed the throat of the nearest shrew, she was sitting at my right Someone brained me with a skillet, boom boom, out go the lights I was watching from above my body Face down on the floor They gathered round my carcass, gasping in horror What do we do about the body, someone cried I heard them without a body, "there can be no trial" But the meat all quickly changed and they all got down to work That is how it was I who became the final course