Taxidermy Poem 3
SJ Fowler's most recent poem to appear here was Taxidermy Poem 2.
Taxidermy Poem 3
By SJ Fowler
By SJ Fowler
(Licmys iroratus)
If we want to know what human
beings, morally considered, are
worth as a whole and in general,
let us consider their fate as a
whole and in general. This fate is
want, wretchedness, misery,
lamentation, and death. External
justice prevails; if they were not
as a whole contemptible, their
whole existence would not be
melancholy. In this sense we can
say the world itself is the tribunal
of the world. If we could lay all
the misery of the world in one
pan of the scales, and all its guilt
in the other, the pointer will
certainly show them to be in
equilibrium.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
A c k
I left you
A c k
at my heels
A c k
in that gluetrap
A c k
to die slowly
A c k
oh my son. death
A c k
{this is the Mexican spiny pocket mouse}
Posted by Annmarie at 9/17/2011 9:51 PM 
Categories: today's words
Tags: SJ Fowler taxidermy Mexican spiny pocket mouse
Categories: today's words
Tags: SJ Fowler taxidermy Mexican spiny pocket mouse
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