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i'll take crab cakes over crab legs because i don't want to work for my food. check, please. here's a tip from the busy waitstaff: we didn't grow it ourselves. farming is an alien concept to most of us. how do you produce the produce? i pop by the corner store looking for slow food. rice? it's a long way from delhi to my local deli. well, this minute maid wasn't made in a minute. some fruit drinks take real concentration. i'd like a slice of cheese product on my ground-up animal. i'd like a spoonful of metabolized cornstarch to help my power bar go down. have my food choices been engineered? what's on the label? check, please. check, check, check. is this thing on? [End Page 50]
Evie Shockley is the author of four collections of poetry—most recently, the new black, winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry—as well as a critical study, Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry. Her poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2015 and Best American Experimental Poetry 2015, and her honors include the 2015 Stephen Henderson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. Currently serving as creative editor for Feminist Studies, Shockley is associate professor of English at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
