Afterwards
Mary Winters
Guinness Book of Records tells us:
Frenchman gobbles glass and metal;
been doing it since 1959,
two pounds a day. Ate ten bicycles,
supermarket cart (4 days), seven TV sets,
six chandeliers, a little airplane.
His fans call him “Monsieur Mangetout”.
What if she as “Madame Mangetout” ate
her whole family, one by one,
youngest first, from the feet up,
including hair; then her two-bedroom
apartment, kitchen first in homage to
Monsieur Mangetout; then diningroom
table, Queen Anne chairs, kid’s
bunk bed, kilim rugs, clothes
including winter coats, shower curtains,
encyclopedia; her whole building
right down to the sub-basement --
