(ii.)

 

With stakes so high

(and such a fast pace)

it's a controversy that she continues

feeding her own greasy fingers

to a bowl of popcorn

as amniotic tentacles

shoot into the next open mouth

the plot twists,

the next pinch

someone we knew drools sleep

defenseless as a hundred eggs

crack open, more hot butter,

she indulges hunger with the melted colour

of the four moons,

chewing safely through the heart

of the midpoint

where few will survive

when it finally happens:

 

one yellow popcorn skin

slices pink gumline

beside the back molar.