Me-stew
Me-stew - meaning Summary
Playful Self as Meal
This brief, humorous poem presents a first-person speaker who, lacking ingredients, decides to become his own stew. The voice is playful and deadpan as he describes climbing into the pot, seasoning himself, and serving himself to eager eaters. The poem mixes absurdity and gallows humor to explore self-sacrifice, identity as commodity, and the comic extremes of problem-solving, using a jaunty tone that invites both laughter and mild discomfort.
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