The kitchen and I
can't seem to learn
from appetite.
A heavyweight belly,
awake only for two
tortillas and beans,
pasta with garlic,
ten pounds of elk
sautéed in butter.
I eat to be hungry,
to eat midnight and the moon.
From page 243 of The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison (Grove Press, 2001).