Title Namesake

take-out seppuku

you got angry with me today
when I offered to give you half
of my sesame chicken

later you said
it was because every time I offered
or insisted that you must still be hungry

it reminded you of how you
had set your plate precariously
on the arm rest

and spilled
your whole plate on the floor
egg roll sliding over fried rice

like samurai
sliding down wet grass
home from great loss

preparing to take their own lives
the image
too much to bear