I've Known Hunger
I've known a hunger so gripping in its vise, so uncaring in its choice The kind that makes your head pound with the signals your brain can no longer comprehend When a pack of Ramen Noodles was the meal of the day and you prayed for enough money for Kraft Mac-n-cheese The kind that makes you sip the last spoonful of Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup so your kids will not go to bed starving Yes, I've know that dread and fear that your stomach was beyond the "oh, I missed lunch" pang and had entered into the truly 40-days-and-40-nights twist and thud of emptiness that made you realize you had entered the world of STARVATION It has written itself on the doors of a long ago memory Those days when a box of Rice-a-Roni was split between four people and the treat was Minute Maid for breakfast if it could last the entire week. Moments when the only concern was food and thinking what you would not do to get it, even as your skinny frame was dropping below 100. I've