HUNGRY

There are times when you're hungry.

Real hungry.

Too hungry to joke about.

There are times when you feel your stomach caving in

eating away at itself

leaving you with so little you may waste away

in less than a day.

You understand that kind of hunger?

Do you?

There are times when you're so hungry

you'd eat anything available

Like brussel sprouts or peas

or dogfood

or roadkill pigeon

left out in the sun for a day and a half.

There are hungers so great, so deep

that worms and poison oak

and even a Caesar's salad would be preferable to another minute without a bite.

Sometimes, you can get so hungry you'd dine on feces,

which, by definition has the minimum possible nutritional value anyway.

There are times when you're too hungry to think about anything else

you know?

Do you?

Do you know that kind of hunger?

Do you understand it?

Then perhaps you'll understand why I'll go to dinner with you.