Atrocities
I crush the ants without a thought
and swat the buzzing fly flat.
My table offers up the gutted calf
with carrots and potatoes yanked
alive and whole from fertile beds.
When I am sick, I swallow pills
that realize microbial genocide.
My life depends upon abundant death.
I'd make a scrawny and diseased
disciple of the Buddha.
and swat the buzzing fly flat.
My table offers up the gutted calf
with carrots and potatoes yanked
alive and whole from fertile beds.
When I am sick, I swallow pills
that realize microbial genocide.
My life depends upon abundant death.
I'd make a scrawny and diseased
disciple of the Buddha.
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Gone too far West for Zen
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"the gutted calf" & "scrawny and diseases disciple" Good piece.
*Namaste
...grunt grunt grunt...me, too. *
We're truly worse than Hitler.
We're all too far gone for Zen.*
"My life depends upon abundant death." hit me especially. I'm not a buddhist but I feel you nevertheless!
Thank you, Amanda,
Sam, Nonnie, Matt,
Magda, Gary, and Marcus.