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FLESH ON PARADE
FLESH ON PARADE
The lion hearted end up behind glass in
The deli window; his mate looks through
The pollard glass like St. Jerome at eternity.
Great trawlers pull up shining bodies and
Tunas are drawn in nets; ornamental sushi
Are put on display behind Tokoyo windows.
God gave us much when we inherited canines;
They are a remnant for other vestigial organs like
Our appendix. We went from raw meat to cooked.
Unlike saturnine birds looking for road kills we
Hover over flesh like they do however we are the
Only species to put flesh on display behind windows.
Unborn baby lambs are prized before they can be put
On display standing beside their mothers; this cuisine
Convinced me that we all sup with Beelzebub himself
The knife grinder allows us to see saggital and transverse
Cuts of meat on display; our palate is not stimulated by
Similar images in Gray’s Anatomy or other surgical text.
When Baal Shem, Ghandi and other non violent souls were
About to be born, this group of souls was chosen to turn
Their eyes away from the windows of flesh on parade.
