Peripheral Nutrition

What little is there left of you?
The question suggests some dwindling,
Which wouldn’t be exactly true.

Transformation isn’t dwindling.
It’s from your perspective you ask—
How much of your own behavior

Will be involved in the changing,
Will vanish in transformation?
How much of you is left for you?

Do you need to know? Could you know?
Would an answer benefit you?
If you can’t keep anything down,

Is there worth left in worrying
If peripheral nutrition
Is reshaping who you’ve become?