Social Studies

I thought that if I ate the food

Of the area I was visiting

That I might assimilate the point

Of view of the people there

As if the point of view was somehow in the food

So I would make no choices myself

Regarding what food I ate

I would simply follow the examples

Of those around me

I would study menus very carefully

Making note of important differences and similarities

When shopping at the supermarket

I felt a great desire to walk off

With someone else's groceries

So I could study them at length

And study their effects on me

As though if I ate their groceries

I would become that person until

I finished their groceries

And we might find ourselves going to the same places

Running into one another at the

Movies or in a shopping mall

Reading the same books watching

The same TV programs

Wearing the same clothes traveling

To the same places

And taking the same pictures getting

Sick at the same time

And getting well again simultaneously

Finding ourselves attracted to the same people

Working at the same job and

Making the same amount of money

Living identical lives as long as the groceries lasted