All There is to Eat

If you live by the sea,
It’s likely that you eat more fish

Unless you’ve been living there for a while
In which case
You’ll know that
It’s all there is to eat

Then you eat the sand instead

Process

From a lecture on writing curiosity in fiction.

My lecturer didn’t really explain those first 2 lines, but the way I interpreted is this:

If your character is in a situation where everything seems perfect, they must look beneath the perfection. In doing so, they must find something is wrong, or nothing is. Either way, there has to be a change in their point of view.

Eating sand refers to doing something destructive for the sole reason of it being different and unpredictable, because the alternative is staying the same forever, ignorant.