Pork Dripping

After weeks of vegetarian snacks
a part of him was still searching city dumpsters
for chewed-over Big Macs.

Then in a moment of weakness
at the County Fair
he purchased one greasy Irish pork sausage
so sweet and thick -
it was on a stick.

Deliciously it licked his tongue
with a fulsome,
sweet succulent fried meatiness.
H actually swooned
over its savory, lick-able tenderness.

That night in restless dreams
he slow-cooked two more of them,
pork drooled, dripping from his mouth
- a kind of porcine phlegm.

Night long he slurped
upon the suet of his soul
only to awake
hangry and left un-whole
for those pork bangers
were still banging in his sleepy head...

and so he arose to deep fry
a large, peeled turnip in almond fat,
and sadly sucked upon that, instead.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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