Dinner Next to A Caravaggio


The quality of a human body,
the tender flesh of a ripened pear,
melts on my tongue and
consumes me,
like the punch of a party
or the knockout of lust.
It knocks the savage human
into my core.
The catastrophic picture of it all.

The quality of a human body,
invites me to dine.
Figures, ancient, grotesque,
a human subject flails
off the edge
and onto the canvas
of a young Caravaggio -
who serves a human for lunch,
with Olive, Merlot.

The quality of a human body
plays the violin for show.
Part personnel,
part image himself.
I dine first, with him.
And second, with him.

I eat
and I dissect
one human from another
and I wonder,
who really, should be framed?
The virgin or the violinist?
The restaurant or the referee?
Myself as customer
of humane morbidity?

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