Teaching Anthony Bourdain to Eat Crawfish

by Veronica Bennett

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.