anxiety sculpture: wallet with a mouth

with a belly, with intestinal lining too—what 

do you feed a wallet in need? appetite is a polite

disguise for the ugliness of digestion. acid, enzymes,

yearning, desire. feed the wallet a dollar & watch

the mouth salivate. licking your lips can be a form

of flirtation. what’s unseen clarifies & uglies.

the dollar gets mashed by molars & burns 

in the esophagus. the stomach receives so little,

a dollar barely tickles it. barely trickles. 

down from the gut comes a growl. more

is the only word this mouth knows. feed it a dollar

& it requests two more. give it a credit card, it quiets,

but only for an hour. consumption begets consumption.

feed the wallet a dream & watch the mouth choke.