12 October 2025

Bon Appetit

If someone offered you 
A live chicken-

Would you cut it?
Would you hold it as it flutters.
Watch it bleed out,
Dip it in boiling water to 
Pluck the feathers?

Would you skin it,
Chop it into neat little pieces,
Boil it, spice it,
And enjoy your dinner?

Or would you rather 
Have an MNC to outsource
The work to its local
Branches-

To standardize a recipe.
Engineer a taste for 
Your tongue before you
Go gaga over the 
Illusion of flavor?

So what would you prefer?

The outsourced guilt
From a supply chain to
Supermarket. 
Or actual fingers buried 
In the blood before it
Lands in your tongue??

A packaged palatability 
For your conscience?
A raw Savory for its
Untamed taste??

Our compulsive acts,
Thrust down a system to 
Rinse them down with
A language that
Suits our morality-

And because a bullet 
Directly in the head 
May come with lots of 
Moral terpitud-
We shall outsource 
The work to remotely 
Controlled drones.

And the war crime 
That had become
Collateral damages 
Shall be game points
Soon-

So Bon appétit to 
The hunger spiced 
With lobbies.
Happy meals.