foodie

it rummages through
each memory
every reminiscence
with long skeletal fingers
pawing
squeezing
testing
every heirloom

it plucks
the best
the most beautiful
ripe and lovely
delicate
pure

and it
cuts and chops
skewers or stirs
mixes or melds
simmers or sears
roasts or ragouts
but always reduces

most enthusiastic foodie
it devours
this gruesome beast
ravenous
insatiable
forever lean and hungry
forever gnawing
until nothing is left
and it starves