taste

when the mouth chews

the food is forgotten

as the body becomes

what the stomach is fed

the body remembers

what the mouth will forget

the body reminds 

the mouth of regret

Author's Note

Reviews

[Emunah June.]

I love poetry like this beacause it invokes the question of both the physical and symbolic relationship that one may have with ingestion. You do such a great job in highlighting the complexity of this relationship while also -- ironically -- making the poem extremely digestible and easy to follow. A beautiful, minimalist piece, straight to the point without being overbearing.

[Davidgeo]

Food and memory have an interesting relationship with digestion and personality development I think. Humans seem to enjoy bad food and fucked up memories. Not all of us, but, given the chance most of us forget about consequence when the taste is right. Thank you for your review. I'm glad this was digestible. I like it when my food is digestible.

A little unrelated, I forgot how good Barbara Streisand could sing... I wasn't going to write anything today and this doesn't have that much to do with the song Memories but, it was totally the reason I decided to write today. Her voice is quite inspirational. Her mouth must be pleased.

[Mark Raines]

Liked the poem it eats away

[Davidgeo]

As eating tends to do

[Gregoria Ahmed]

😂This poem made me laugh and then made me think. I love how you turned a simple act of eating into a reflection on memory, consequence, and regret. "The body reminds, the mouth of regrets" is such a perfect closer; wry, true, and quietly brilliant! Thanks for serving up something so digestible and deep!

[Davidgeo]

This one started from an old saying... "when the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten". It pleases me greatly that I could get you to laugh and think at the same thing. That makes me feel good.

[Gregoria Ahmed]

I’m glad my laughter and reflection could land in the same moment—your writing made that possible.

[Buddhistboy73]

Ha ha....an interesting opine on the relationship between us and food....;)

the body reminds the mouth of regret....I liked this line....
Thanks for sharing...

BB73

[Davidgeo]

My pleasure. I'm glad you liked the ending. That's my favorite part as well.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

And those regrets can come most often from what the mouth said.
Nifty little piece here, David.
j.

[Davidgeo]

I should probably make another version of this dealing with the hands and how the fingers forget to regret the absurd s**t posted on the internet.

Thank you for reading me Jacob.