Consider Accomplishment

An important bulletin
From the front—someone wonders
About the moment her food

Becomes her. Have you wondered
About the many moments
You’ve turned your food into hair?

As you’re eating your meals, and
Fighting your good fights, finding
Partners political and

Romantic, thinking deep thoughts
About the meaning of things
And your people’s suffering,

What was done to your parents,
What your parents did to you,
You, embodied you, make hair.

You don’t eat hair. You make it.
You shed it, all kinds of it,
Long or short keratin ropes,

None of them alive themselves,
So many in your lifetime,
You’re something of a machine

For turning the formerly
Living world you’ve digested
Into hair. That much you’ve done.