What I am today

If I am what I eat,
then today I am
orange chocolate
with chestnuts.

I am a strawberry
and mango smoothie
with a pinch
of condensed milk
and a tad of sugar.

I am two bottles of water.
I am beef with
curry potatoes
and boiled eggplant.

I am today’s vegetable.
I am rice.
I am a chicken wrap
and a Chinese hamburger
with too much ketchup.

I am tea.

I am bread
and a fried egg
and a slice of spam.

I am jiaozi
with vinegar
and peanut sauce.


Author: Filipe

I love language and spirituality. I also love education, technology and design. My favorite topics of conversation revolve around theology, poetry, linguistics, rhetoric, World Englishes, chinchillas, second language writing, how to kill a plant in 10 days, etc. I was a language teacher and now I build language learning products by day. I am an interpretive mind-dancer by night. I live in China.

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