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Kevin Young, poet ,writes about food 
Kevin Young, poet and Emory University professor,
writes movingly about food
Like the great writer of odes, Pablo Neruda, Young address
the object of his celebration like a listener. In his
“Ode to Pork, ” Young writes:
because loving you
may kill me — but still you
rock me down slow
as hamhocks on the stove.
Anyway you come
fried, cued, burnt
to within one inch
of your life I love. Babe,
I revere your every
nickname — bacon, chitlin,
cracklin, sin.
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