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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 26. October 2 1978

Eating Habit

Eating Habit

Today in the library
you asked a
simple question,
and must have thought
I was crying, but
I was laughing too much
to stop;
to confess.
For when you asked me
was my lunch in my bag
on the second floor,
my imagination sparked a
vision of a meaty person
in suit and tie
— in retrospect; a plump
businessman —
and I wanted to say my
my lunch wasn't bagged yet,
but still walking around,
wild;
unknowing;
but I couldn't bring
myself to it, knowing
you'd find it hard.

And much later you'd lick
the last bone clean and toss
it over your shoulder
to follow the rest,
while still puzzling
— for all the feast of
explanation, my expert
Show-and-tell —
where my lunch really was,
and if it wasn't in
my bag, why that
was so funny.

Jane Odlin