Snapp Comix a Poem from the 60's

Snapp Comix

I am Life.
I must eat life to live.
Life is my food.
It’s either me eating the tomato,
Or the tomato eating me.

Sitting here chewing on my bread and butter,
I remember the cow lung I should’ve fried for dinner (theirs, of course).
Oh well. The squishy membranes of a ripe tomato.
The Homeless Waif-Pup eats tomato membrane too,
(failing cow lung)
And is happy with an extra hunk of bread.
Why not I?

Food is.

This is a carrot.
Its texture is exquisite,
Its flavor infinitesimal.
The mood I’m in, I would not go out of my way to cook it.
I know what people are.
It has to be accepted.
What is important is this pear here
Perched on the edge
Of my tunny-fish ashtray.
It’s the same story
Over and over.
How many poems are yet to be written
On this very thought?

I said, this is a carrot.

Madrid Sept 1972