Xenophile
I am neither Nippon-born, Nor do I share the wild scorn For passions erected of ancient days Portrayed upon a sun-bleached skein, Inked in ebony, sold to the masses, Left in dust upon my desk While I contemplate a better life, While Nippon...
Laceration of Fate
A plethora of potent feelings sweep my reptilian brain. Savagery at its finest, raging furiously against the inane, I take a circular path, back to the Traitor again. Traitor I love you, traitor I'll kill you. Traitor why don't you stay with...
A Lifestyle Choice
Dear Mom and Dad, I'm writing this to you to say farewell. I'm going to live with the others. Soon, I will grow a tail, and it will be getting hard to stand on two legs to write this. Moreover, my paws barely fit the keys to type this. I'm going to...
Because I sympathized with animals...
This thing came to pass where I was envious. This thing came to pass where I thought I was not free. This thing came to pass where I saw people were not free. I perceived there to be some great shame, was I wrong? I was ashamed of my own...
Owning My Humanity -- Anxiety
I am in a considerable deal of ongoing pain--and while that's not a particularly engaging way to solicit an audience--pain being what it is--I feel it important to qualify my position. My pain is that of concentration, and of feeling it constantly...
Owning My Humanity -- Commitment
"Eventually we all have to make commitments to the things we hold dear, or risk losing them entirely." I had thought about this, and questioned--'do I value being a person'? On the one hand, you have expression, art, communion with friends and...
Come With Us To Gomorrah, Opportunity Knocks But Once
What is the reality we dream of? I sat pondering this, scraped and scarred in the dust, as I watched my fellow man putting bullets through each other's brains. On a better day, in a better context, maybe it was giving your life for your country, or...
Monster Called Man
"That's despicable. And you 'worship' this entity?" "The concept, anyway. We worship the strength our animals provide us." "And you... 'turn' yourselves into these things?" "You would see it no differently; converting to any other faith." "Few...
Foxhunt
Woke up this morn, got up, idea was on my plate No time to contemplate reach for the moon A sordid imagery forced within my face Undid time Counting days, countless nights independent Time erased, glass goldfish bowl cage On this solid...
Dispersal of the Prince
"Why don't you embrace this power--let it overcome you--turn you into the foul-smelling creature that you can be..." "Disgusting!" "It feels fantastic, though--the power of an animal." "No, give me back my hands!" "They're not yours anymore. They...
A Conflict of Minds
"Why would you want this?" "Because." "Just because?" "Because I want..." "What, to escape accountability? Responsibility? Animals have those things too." "Leaving aside for a moment that human beings 'ARE' animals to begin with..." "But that's...
Perplexion of the Lady
It was not a baleful or maliciously deliberate change, but though it was neither painful or forced, the Lady found herself taken aback by her new form. When at first she coordinated her body, it did not respond as it might have prior the...