Author: [[Nick Roberts]] --- The peepers stand on the tip of their tiptoes and in the window can see me chew up the feast:      as it stands on plates, platters,      trenchers, bowls, tureens,      saucers, cups, mugs, dishes can watch as I chew this up:      pheasants, pigs, pigeons, ducks,      geese, swans, chickens,      bovine flesh and equine flesh      sauced salted and unsauced,      fish flesh and flying flesh,      penguin and puffin      flakes of flesh grated like cheese      flesh fresh-fried in a pan      flesh overdone and underdone      all and any and every      kind of flesh they can watch me chew this      the skin of fighting cocks and watch me chew this      the skin of our candidate rim of dish intensely sugared or rim a mix of salt and sugar      to make the sweet bitter      and make the bitter sweet