You’ve got it all

figured out.

You know how to eat

another man

without being disgusted

with dining on demise.

I wish I had

your ravenous taste

for flesh.

I tried.

I keep spitting

it out before I can muster

the courage to

swallow.

 

*Editor’s Note: This poem is in reference to the Donner Dinner Party, a tragic event which is the result of hikers being stranded due to extreme weather in California during the nineteenth century.


Colby Kloehr is a Psychology and English major here at PSU. He’s been writing poetry for a bit over a year now. He started in his high school literature class back home in Texas and has been obsessed ever since. He hopes you guys enjoy his work!

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