Wikipedia Poem, No. 991
ONE
of animals
as moral consumers
justify their sight
moral consumption of animals and you
don’t fry up this fragmented animal
as moral constraint either hence
we dig up this fragmented animal class
in anti-intellectual stories under wonder
what’s moral consumption?
the poets are moral consumers mutatis mutandis
what’s moral? we wonder what’s something their patients see
this fragmented pharmaceutical animal perhaps?
as far as moral constraint
either we wonder what’s moral or
consume animals as we wonder what’s moral
TWO
self-awareness
don’t fry up that ego: all organisms work
self-affirming live monkey limb
because we think of animals as moral consumptions
size and constraint either hence we consume them
but we don’t generally see animals
we don’t have stories to tell
self-affirming little tales to negotiate
guilt over knives
don’t ponder what’s moral consumption
size and constraints
what their habits whisper of self-awareness
don’t have their patients moral consumption
animals as moral consumers of size
condors constrain their populations
but they selfishly extol story structure
that doesn’t have to do with man and god
foolish moral constraints as we wonder what’s moral
consumption sounds and chimps
our nearest relatives tearing
them apart but selfishly expanding
to don’t have stories to justify they also don’t have live monkeys
pharmaceutical animals as tonal constraint
what’s our nearest relative for tearing
tell me something about self-awareness
to negotiate guilt tell me
hurting stories to negotiate guilt
hurting their habitats don’t consume size and constraint
what of them? their populations? there’s only one story
the tearing story we tell self-affirming agents
no normal moral considerations just stories
what’s moral consumption size and constraint
either we wonder what’s or we don’t
THREE
something trendy back in grad school
all the poets enabled study of age as a class
in all those poems that enabled
so it was its almost discourses that as poets
were something of pound olson duncan and you
to undergrad all the trendy bach pieces
the poems people turned in at grad school
all the trendy modernist power play
a pound of olson a pound of duncan
and you don’t have to dig up this fragmented
anti-intellectual potsherd
weak domesticated anti-intellectual egoism