George Klewin
after Ada Limon
I’m learning so many different ways to eat. There’s how I inhale my late-night fast food cravings. There’s also how I politely cut each bite and take my time eating at a fancy restaurant, completely different because I can’t look like a starved wild raccoon in public. There’s how I enjoy a perfectly prepared, home-cooked spaghetti dinner, and how sometimes I can’t stand someone’s cooking and force myself to patiently finish it. There’s post-workout nibbling when I’m not even hungry but need the protein and nourishment to function properly; stoned snack munching; bar food binging with the boys, competing for who can put down the most hot wings. There’s sunflower seed eating and sushi eating and messy ribs eating, and then there’s the eating that mixes with drinking that fills me up twice as fast and makes me regret it the next morning. That’s how this machine works.
George Klewin is a sophomore at Rocky majoring in business administration. He is a aspiring football player and poet from Seattle, Washington.
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