for when we look to sciences

To watch a man eat a boiled egg is different than to watch a woman eat a boiled egg
On a morning commute by ferry crossing a sea called sound for too long I get to do both from the same
Vantage protein has been determined necessity to get us through times the differences may have little to do with
Gender the differences may have more to do with size of our teeth how a culture can teach you
To hold your food how big a bite is necessary how acceptable there is probably a science for
And I don’t know of it but there is usually a science spent caring more than neighbors will
More answers won’t stop us only to show how a man will bite larger than a safe swallow to show
How a man won’t mind chewing unseemly for so goddamn long to keep from choking
When what would be wrong with this man choking what makes any of us worth saving to show
How a woman will bite smaller than her hunger to show how the woman will bite
To chew for appearances to show how the woman thinks more about us
Than about what she has been told how hungry she is so hungry she could eat a dozen boiled eggs
Unpeeled in only one or two bites without missing a beat she is so goddamn hungry.

Philip James Shaw writes, designs, and directs communications on behalf of organizations working to advance education, equity, health, and the literary arts.