Teaching Anthony Bourdain to Eat Crawfish
after Wong May
Dead,
Eating the crawfish
the crawfish and their bodies
Taking your fingers to them
Your fingers to the bodies
the bodies of the crawfish
Like eating a mandarin orange
an overripe mandarin orange
With its soppy sweet fruit
Dead.
Veronica Bennett (she/they) is a Texan in Philadelphia. They're the founder/e.i.c./everything of Bullshit Lit Mag + Press. Her poems have been published by Rejection Letters, Anti-Heroin Chic, fifth wheel press, and Olney Magazine. More at vabnt.com or @vabnt.
