GnAw

I gnawed on bones this morning for breakfast
Sometimes a gal just has to gnaw
Get to the gristle of things
I am a meat eater
But I like the cartilage
The sinew of things
Getting past the meat and to what holds things together
It’s kind of like digging into the soil past the surface
To find all the mealy and milling things around that feed the earth
And hence
Giving its inhabitants
The will and need for survival