I am Hungry

I am hungry. It’s the regular hunger you feel when you don’t provide your body with nourishment. It’s not a metaphor for anything fancy, it’s simple, it’s hunger. I didn’t have dinner yesterday; I did have lunch, but not dinner, and no breakfast this morning. I am hungry. This is the way a good part of the world feels most of the time. I want to understand it, so I am not going to eat. I am hungry. It’s a painful feeling, it hurts, it’s debilitating, it’s heavy, you can’t push it away easily, you can’t focus on something else while it’s knocking in you, and its constant. How are kids supposed to learn in school when they feel the way I am feeling now? I am hungry. Water doesn’t do a damn thing to take it away. I am hungry. You should try it sometimes; it may show you things. I am choosing to be hungry; I am doing this with the knowledge of my having multiple options to find food at any point. I can’t imagine not having these options, I can’t imagine how that could affect me, I don’t want to imagine. I am hungry.