I Was a Vegetarian for the Summer
But I ate fish.
I ate beautiful glimmering things thrown out of waters and beat into cans.
I thought about the trails the glistening scaly ones traveled together.
Together we too traveled.
We shone light on our lies and lives and in the reflections that came back
to us we saw ourselves.
We let go of ourselves.
For a short while we let go of deodorant and time and meat.
Conventions and convictions slipped off our fingers and we were no longer married to our born
identities.
Freed from methods of home and school, we tried on different hues of beliefs and found what
fitted our forms closest.
So I tried vegetarianism and discovered I am an omnivore.
I eat meat and plants
And hope and despair
And flippancy and depth-dark soul questions.
I eat Carolina mountain mist and Massachusetts’s summit sunsets
And Maine cold saltwater.
I eat old customs, newborn ideas.
I eat science and religion.
And I digest slowly.
Samantha Do
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