OLD DREAM

It begins with a dream.

The most beautiful animal ever born
is herded into a gas chamber.
Her body is fed into a meat grinder,
and then into a man,
who consumes her mindlessly,
while watching a YouTube video.

What does it mean?

Well, you have been thinking recently
about how science doesn’t work the way you hoped,
and religion doesn’t work at all.

We could be good,
but it’s too comfortable here,
and not hard to switch off our brains.
In fact, it’s rather pleasurable.

There was a moment, once, when my brush ran dry
and she offered hers
for me to steal a dab of paint from the tip.
Kneeling together.
Pink paint on cheap canvas.

It’s an old dream.