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Assimilative Hunger Warned
The speaker describes an increasing desire to merge with the world and another person, using plant imagery of osmosis and green photosynthesis as an ideal of harmless assimilation. Lacking leaves, the speaker admits to human senses—eyes, teeth—that turn desire into a consuming hunger. The poem functions as a confessed warning: this appetite is not rational negotiation but an elemental, unavoidable force, compared to a "starved dog's logic" about bones.
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