Taxidermy Poem 3

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SJ Fowler’s most recent poem to appear here was Taxidermy Poem 2.

Taxidermy Poem 3
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}

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