but i have a new poem to share. i still have a fascination with the South Korean social media phenomenon of mukbang, “eating broadcast”. some mukbangers keep me glued to the YouTube. i especially credit my mukbang adoration to the creators tzuyang, ebimayo, sanghyuk, plandD, gaeun, and dyeong, who each do different but wonderful work. there’s delicacy, enjoyment, cultural knowledge, new vocabulary, things to try IRL. get into it.
every molecule the body meets makes a memory I’ve learned from my mukbangers to open my mouth very wide to welcome every bite there is no daintiness in food we must amuse the bouche think of the villi and their elation I wondered for a long time how my mukbangers avoided mess but they don’t avoid anything it’s a matter of welcoming desire moves the hand; pleasure, the mouth a smile like a yogi releasing you from everything focus only upon the sensation I take it all in like my mukbangers my mouth opens much wider than I thought it could and it holds much more than I thought it could a mouthful of cool water and I am a lake a spoonful of purposefully stacked foods and I am an ecosystem I take it all in in and out of my mouth all of it in lungs expand so full vertebrae crackle diaphragm pulls so deep all the other organs move make way make way I say again I’ve learned from my mukbangers to have faith in myself my mouth and when I open my mouth very wide so wide it’s a matter of welcoming it's a matter of chewing it's a matter of digesting I take it all in I can take it all in.