Men Eat Hogs" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium.
It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine, Tugging at banks, until they seemed Bland belly-sounds in somnolent troughs,
That the man who erected this cabin, planted This field, and tended it awhile, Knew not the quirks of imagery,
That the hours of his indolent, arid days, Grotesque with this nosing in banks, This somnolence and rattapallax,
This poem's title is one of those that rankled with Louis Untermeyer, but Stevens insisted on it in preference to the abbreviated "Frogs Eat Butterflies", which he wrote in a 1922 letter, "would have an affected appearance, which I should dislike".