" Like a ravenous dog
a lumbering, slobbering Mastiff or St. Bernard,
sloping up raw hamburger and eggs from its dish
on the floor in the corner of the family kitchen
licking and slurping and lapping
wanting more, always more

Some greasy Hemingway
Some grainy Steinbeck

Savory salad with lots of garlic,
that's Vonnegut "

― Ted Mallory , Max Nix: Poems