I gorge like a pig
While I’m eating
This pork chop

You are what
You eat

There are some conclusions
To be drawn but what’s the point

I enter the church when
I’m hungry like a wolf
Just to eat there
My lamb’s body

Flesh
Of my
Flesh

I look at the naked man
On the cross

Skin
And
Bones

He doesn’t look tasty
At all

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Peycho Kanev is the author of 12 poetry collections and three chapbooks, published in the USA and Europe. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, such as: Rattle, Poetry Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Front Porch Review, Hawaii Review, Barrow Street, Sheepshead Review, Off the Coast, The Adirondack Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Cleveland Review and many others. His new book of poetry titled A Fake Memoir was published in 2022 by Cyberwit press.