As/Is







10.23.2004



What's the best way for it to go
re: improbable armadillos crushed to keratinous
bits in Central American highways?

I'm compiling ideas for later,
dividing live from dead with Linnaeus' eye
for separation.

Taxonomy is violence, dontcha know.

Name me as you unname yourself. Think
carefully - three species of rosella are
crashing into clean rainwashed windows
right now.

Think I'll define your lot by the way
you eat an apple - top, middle or
bottom first? then by your taste for cruelty, your
Machiavellian plots to resolve stinging Oedipal complexities
by annexing the world's wombs and crawling
back in we are different.

Our orders do not mix.