Recapturous

Watching you watch each other

Think is like watching you watch

Each other eat the same meal

With different manners and teeth,

All of you at the table,

An actual smorgasbord,

As one of you just called it,

Of mostly similar thoughts

On mostly similar texts,

Grown from us names and numbers.

It’s a little different, though,

In that watching each other

Think is eating and cooking,

Simultaneously, not

Just watching the cook, sampling

As the meal’s prepared—eating

The cook as the meal, watching

And directing your eating,

Like a pig in Lubberland

Offering you its bacon.

You might want to back on out

If you can, but you can’t, since

You’re always hungry for more

Ideas, hungrily watching

Each other think, as you eat

Each other up in thinking.