Feed Me the Part of the Animal

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Feed me the part of the animal

no one else wants, the wiry bone

cage of its back, its knotted feet

picked clean and fried with greens

ripped from a dusty ditch. Serve it

to me in a tin can with powdered

glass sprinkled on top. Let me

die slowly: let the tiny lacerations

bleed it out of me, the poison

they planted so long ago. Allow

my body to return to its human

shape before they find it: then

no one will be forced to confront

what we have always been, mostly-

wolf, mostly-ape, and so, so clever.