And You Too Will Eat What We Are Eating Poem by RIC BASTASA

come now
i have praises for you
about what you have written

come join me
on this table

i am eating my words
that i have just vomitted

it is not fattening
it is indeed enriching

this vomit
this acceptance of

i have committed an error
i have not predicted the way things ought to happen
i have not looked at you well enough

come
join us and you too shall eat what we are eating
words and nothing but words

but you can make the difference
with your beautiful eyes

your beautiful soul
we will listen now

you must sing your most beautiful songs
as we eat our own words
as we swallow our own prides
as we accept what we are

in our uselessness
in our misery