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Mike West Aug 2012
Pickled Piglet
Mike West
Aug 2012
Pickled piglet in a jar
Oh what a mystery you are.
Preserved there in your piglet brine.
You could stay young there for all time.
With your little, wrinkled, piglet nose,
And your tiny, cloven, piglet toes.
A classroom project you'll someday be,
For a student of biology.
They'll take you out and start to cut,
And open up your piglet gut.
They'll peel away your piglet skin,
And expose everything therin.
They'll open your little piglet head,
Oh well, who cares, you're already dead.
They'll remove your little piglet brain,
Thank goodness you can feel no pain.
They'll remove your little piglet eyes,
And take those apart. C'mon guys!
They'll examine all your piglet parts,
Lungs, liver, stomach, little piglet heart.
And when, eventually, they're all through,
It's to the garbage can with you!
Oh what a mystery you are.
Preserved there in your piglet brine.
You could stay young there for all time.
With your little, wrinkled, piglet nose,
And your tiny, cloven, piglet toes.
A classroom project you'll someday be,
For a student of biology.
They'll take you out and start to cut,
And open up your piglet gut.
They'll peel away your piglet skin,
And expose everything therin.
They'll open your little piglet head,
Oh well, who cares, you're already dead.
They'll remove your little piglet brain,
Thank goodness you can feel no pain.
They'll remove your little piglet eyes,
And take those apart. C'mon guys!
They'll examine all your piglet parts,
Lungs, liver, stomach, little piglet heart.
And when, eventually, they're all through,
It's to the garbage can with you!
C R Jul 2012
Dissection
C R
Jul 2012
Oh little piglet,
What have I done?
You're so still,
So soft,
So dry and clean and cold.
Where's the mud, wee infant swine?
The rolling, jumping, laughing mud?
You are too clean, little piglet.
You never knew mud.
I'm sorry, little piglet,
I have undressed you.
Your little coat, so pink and sunrise flushed.
Such a pretty coat!
But not strong enough for mud, it seems,
Oh little piglet.
They said you were born still, little piglet.
That a hole in your heart
let the life run out.
But I believe you could have run,
Fill the hole with terracotta mud
and run, little piglet.
Here,
I've opened the gate,
Goodbye, little piglet.
What have I done?
You're so still,
So soft,
So dry and clean and cold.
Where's the mud, wee infant swine?
The rolling, jumping, laughing mud?
You are too clean, little piglet.
You never knew mud.
I'm sorry, little piglet,
I have undressed you.
Your little coat, so pink and sunrise flushed.
Such a pretty coat!
But not strong enough for mud, it seems,
Oh little piglet.
They said you were born still, little piglet.
That a hole in your heart
let the life run out.
But I believe you could have run,
Fill the hole with terracotta mud
and run, little piglet.
Here,
I've opened the gate,
Goodbye, little piglet.
My first year of University, we had to dissect stillborn piglets. It left me with such a feeling of wrongness that I left, and straight away wrote this.
The fragility and unfairness of life on that day has stuck with me since then.
The fragility and unfairness of life on that day has stuck with me since then.
Mateuš Conrad
Sep 2018
. you're using all the right words: for all the wrong reasons... and let's face it: if women own the monopoly on reproductive avenues... then men hold the ego-key, to slot their presence, through a door, that curbs or gives allowances, to what is thought... *** was nether a transluçent enterprise... oh look... the Roma sigma pops up... dire straits: de profundis - money for nothing riff - boogie boogie... milkshakes from the 1950s 'n' all... you know what my biggest pet peeve is? the englih language imitating ancient Latin, i.e. not applying diacritical "punctuation" markers to close in on syllables and make the language atomic (i.e. H is hydrogen, He is helium)... **** me... the same Brits who lived in the 19th century, are not the same Brits living in the 21st century... no wonder the fertility rate is s ****** low.... try ******* an english bride... no thank you; i'd rather **** a female gorilla.
the milkman passes my house
at, circa, 3am...
see the van skid around the bend
up the hill...
i listen to music at volumes
equivalent to my father working
the construction site -
i'll be deaf by the time i'm 50...
and guess what:
for the music i'm listening
to? it'll be worth it...
dittoing out:
have the criticism of post-modernists
ever suffer?
doubt: doubt, is the modern
relief from existentialist
negation...
why is doubt being attacked?
doubt is half than that outright
******* of denial
proposed by French existentialists...
doubt is good in that it's
tornado of emotions,
you want to imitate Christ on
Golgotha?
you doubt, and achieve the pinnacle
of the passion...
you start negating?
you're, nowhere...
on your own...
came the noun-phobia of philosophers -
the tinkers and tailors
of a.. what seems to be:
a noun-phobia
guaranteed with fog...
and thing..
the term
"thing" presupposes
the supposition of tree...
which subsequently serves
the proposition: let's hide in it!
philosophy and its infamous
noun-phobia -
thing...
and it's nihil...
its nothing...
a ******* cul de sac -
epigram -
of quasi morse encoding -
braille to boot -
September is coming -
van Morrison (moondance) -
hiding autumnal chill -
pan-Europeanism:
proto-"africa": either in Hindustan -
or Siberia;
suppose a moon, suppose a shadow by
candlelight, some edgy urban solo -
as a bricklayer i could raise kids
and crux on a woman -
chicken / doctoral itching with
a blunt nail are called scratchings -
hand-writing:
less digits in the digital
formatting - and more
calligraphy...
the rotten handwriting
of general practitioners...
Hippocrates might have made an oath...
but in terms of a handwritten cipher?
no clue...
the canvas of a monkey
onomatopoeia within the confines
of a custard of a lexicon...
a mouth thus opens -
a month begins -
instead of a tongue ejected from
the ivory temple -
a sludge crescendo of a quasi
cascade of sludge gluing the
whole theater into
a replica of a Russian drinking game...
.... ⠞⠓
... ⠑⠁⠑
... ⠞⠑
............ ⠞
... ⠥ ⠎
: : : - ⠎
........ : .... ⠕?
100 wolves of the continent...
for, but 1, fox,
of the English isles...
i'll settle for that ratio...
and then i'll bite to ensure
a signature!
howl all you want...
but have you ever found seagulls
annoying up the river?
more annoying than magpies
or crows?
the wolves can howl
all they want..
ever endear the ear
to hear a fox "laughing"?
no?
might as well listen to me.
i cradle that sound,
above the chariots
of a human newborn...
i grieve!
i am... sombre gsture...
a past, a passing,
a future, a wicker man within:
torch...
banquette of souls!
let's interlude -
touko "tom" laaksonen -
how can people "do" sober
when entertaining such
extravagances....
is it empathy, or sympathy?
in the name of the either,
with either being the sum
of what wll never be a sum
allowance,....
to gain from...
why not
****-ease up the ****
for a zeppelin-esque
bomb drop -
(minor the Nagasaki) -
and hand-piked ****
with the cusp of your hand -
throne of thrones -
flagship?
"king of kings":
like ****...
the holy trinity of
the no. 1, as the no. 2,
and subsequently the no. 3:
**** (father),
take a **** (son)...
******* (the holy ghosts)...
king of kings,
never sat on the throne
of thrones...
i always hated "artists"...
painters -
plagiarists -
cheque sketchers...
plagiarists...
******* indentation
from holding a pen to add to having
exposure to a grammatical examination...
quality cinema:
panorama take on a versus of
heavy editing...
and there was a time
frame to encompass dialogue...
somehow it fits:
the verbal myopic -
the entire pre-
& post- canvas of a blinking eye...
always the question of the
pre-industrialißed sketch;
words predating metaphor
akin to -
words versus metaphor
in genesis -
format? anecdotal.
in writing:
by one hand alone,
made into two...
my, my...
what a ****** self-portrait
"assumption"...
a self-portrait...
a wish for color,
with nothing to show,
but the relief of encompassed bones;
that become a disembodied
skeleton - minus a purpose
of tendon attachments...
∟ "contra" Δ -
equilateral my ***...
a few days spent within the confines
of a Promethean *****,
there be, elemental insomnia
of an electric bespoke...
if Prometheus stole fire,
who, in in all for ****'s sake
stole the saber of Zeus,
the thunderbolt -
electricity, who?
who craved the insomnia?!
this Frankenstein-esque
insomnia-zombification -
white as is white:
with all the dermatological
copper take on broken shins...
should ivory coco -
come between piglet *** copper
auburn in terms of autumn...
******...
*******!
take your ****** *** elsewhere,
and then... start spelling
it with a missing G...
when citing Niger...
you do the double dip of the NBA...
you count the second dip...
why do i love Batman as the best
superhero?
not of his superhero powers,
he has none...
his enemies are
the only interesting
counter-factoids of
having implemented an existence
for.
there is no exacting of
a superhero,..
but there is enough
to mind an antithesis...
tylko wieśniak
by wydział film w tym,
bo sie nie rusze -
cegła, kamień -
pień - mur -
i by mówił - w tym
co zamarzło -
to co ostygłe -
w co z tym samym -
meine filmisch -
i skakaniem świec -
od i na nagim cieniem -
pytać nad pyche -
tanz! tanz!
moje iskry słów...
sto! i lat,
o wielbłąd churem o
grzbiet da, i da,
iskra; alfabetu!
bogiem impromptu
o czym warty: -gień.
- suppose a moon, suppose a shadow,
by candlelight - within the confines of
mercury - that quickened silver -
some edgy urban solo -
as a bricklayer or a cobbler -
shoes that deviate from ushering
an echo -
i could raise children and keep
a woman: only if she decided
upon not allowing me
a leash -
what a saddening affair
of minds and freedom...
chicken doctoral -
i don't know: vanity of the impossible
mortal gain...
the monkey onomatopoeia
within the confines of a custard
of lexicon....
that Victorian image proof
source of envisioned Braille in
the confines of a primate...
handwriting:
itches, scratches, chicken esque
clucking... which is what
handwriting looks like these days,
what, with the coding...
semi plumber,
half the electrician...
and certainly null when it comes
to calligraphic invigoration...
- homosexuality was always a contingency
escapade to release suppressed yearnings -
a sudden but a non-fulfillment questioning
celibacy...
you can enforce curbing homosexuality,
but then there are two outlets...
the perversity: or the question...
of Ayn and Sophia...
greeks ****** the hebrews in the hole
without an outlet - zee heed: with a missing A...
Ayn - Aleph -
twin Adam -
perhaps a Siamese abomination...
mind you... the forbidden fruit?
sounds more like... the forbidden flesh...
thee burdensome walking
the already burdened earth: as the fruit,
somewhere between the flesh of man's last predator,
contained, on land, and his hidden desire
for revenge and introspection,
a denial of commonality and shared purpose -
thou shall not consume
that which also hunts you -
little or no concern with equal
measure of forbidding, that which you pet...
the forbidden "fruit",
in between the flesh of a sabertooth tiger,
and Cain's fruit of famine and incompetence:
cannibalism...
and why would you think about
drinking a ms. amber with pepsi...
pepsi! to coca -
and not slide in a slice of lemon
while you're at it?
terrible mistake...
well... one way to get y'er vit amins...
and why is it that all the best
movies these days are about homosexuals?
the dutch girl for starters...
me, drinking, watching t.v.?
either **** good drama,
a western,
or a movie about a *******
homosexual...
did i mention that i think that
homosexuality is an auxiliary escapade plan?
natural, of course,
but i'd hate to have to life
a doubled up life -
then again...
perhaps i would...
me? i have a new girlfriend -
Sophia - and her ****: Philip -
so am i expected to make demands
for the child they might end up
called Ayn, or Aleph?
- the Wahhabi hypocrisy
concerning music, or rather, censoring it...
but... but i thought the adhan:
the call to prayer: was sung,
rather than abiding by the catholic
credo murmur?
no?
my bad... you know better...
i'll send you a postcard from
the Galapagos Islands,
if i find the time, to find:
that 4th dimensional concept doing
the trigonometric shoom! elsewhere -
on a tangen "bias": **** knows where -
like a comet - missing a tail -
shoom! gone.
shrapnel:
not enough thrills for a hard-on...
... images... drawings...
apparently fine art is not enough
stimulation to ******* to for these Arabs...
****? ..... in general?
cartoons.... cartoons of women....
... because?
well... apparently the niqab...
extends beyond the realm of...
readily available attire...
women on the street?
pornographic "actresses"?
you see the cartoon?
it's all ******* ******...
oh don't get me wrong...
amy adams?
buff as an exploding Hindenburg...
the pale ginger - milchskin...
- unrelated:
how about i sneak a skunk into
a coco chanel perfumery -
while advocating that people will still
call it a: scent just shy of roses and strawberries.
- people have heard of incels -
but have they heard of Vcels?
huh?!
yeah, yeah... voluntary celibacy -
i know what a ****** sounds and looks like -
and, to be honest?
there's hardly any rhetorical ***
involved -
a bit like jerking off...
monkish chants -
Byzantine -
the fear of man,
when his own inability flourishes:
in a woman...
these acts have become well trodden...
so well trodden that i'm
authentically surprised that anyone
would still goosestep them into
their mundane plagiarism's existence...
replica invigoration:
turns out...
zeit ist nicht gerade, aber
kreisförmig...
touko "tom" laaksonen...
i.e. tom of finland...
question: you think a macron over
one of those As
would do the trick in terms
of spelling correction?
touko "tom" laaksonen...
you seriously can only watch European cinema
while drinking...
again... invigorating the english language:
one baby step at a time -
a simple grapheme -
the vater's S Z interchangeability -
synchronised contra synchronized -
settled -
synchronißed -
sometimes the slithering S
of a snake -
otherwise the rigid totem with
a torso of a zebra...
hardly a major investment -
but when i see English having moved
from the Elizabethan Shaky Steward of
thou etc. -
imitating ancient Latin -
coordinating the Greenwich study of
dyslexia...
Joyce...
no diacritical application?
hell...
might as well release a bull
into a China shop...
or a rottweiler into chicken shack...
still... why is there an orthographic aesthetic
in practice, hovering over I and J,
when there's no difference, as suggested
in CAPiTAL letterIng?
ah... i see...
the english "think" they can bypass the para-
frontier, and the orthographic frontier
and race down to the metaphysics...
first?
you explain why it's i and not ι,
and why it's j and not ȷ.
the milkman passes my house
at, circa, 3am...
see the van skid around the bend
up the hill...
i listen to music at volumes
equivalent to my father working
the construction site -
i'll be deaf by the time i'm 50...
and guess what:
for the music i'm listening
to? it'll be worth it...
dittoing out:
have the criticism of post-modernists
ever suffer?
doubt: doubt, is the modern
relief from existentialist
negation...
why is doubt being attacked?
doubt is half than that outright
******* of denial
proposed by French existentialists...
doubt is good in that it's
tornado of emotions,
you want to imitate Christ on
Golgotha?
you doubt, and achieve the pinnacle
of the passion...
you start negating?
you're, nowhere...
on your own...
came the noun-phobia of philosophers -
the tinkers and tailors
of a.. what seems to be:
a noun-phobia
guaranteed with fog...
and thing..
the term
"thing" presupposes
the supposition of tree...
which subsequently serves
the proposition: let's hide in it!
philosophy and its infamous
noun-phobia -
thing...
and it's nihil...
its nothing...
a ******* cul de sac -
epigram -
of quasi morse encoding -
braille to boot -
September is coming -
van Morrison (moondance) -
hiding autumnal chill -
pan-Europeanism:
proto-"africa": either in Hindustan -
or Siberia;
suppose a moon, suppose a shadow by
candlelight, some edgy urban solo -
as a bricklayer i could raise kids
and crux on a woman -
chicken / doctoral itching with
a blunt nail are called scratchings -
hand-writing:
less digits in the digital
formatting - and more
calligraphy...
the rotten handwriting
of general practitioners...
Hippocrates might have made an oath...
but in terms of a handwritten cipher?
no clue...
the canvas of a monkey
onomatopoeia within the confines
of a custard of a lexicon...
a mouth thus opens -
a month begins -
instead of a tongue ejected from
the ivory temple -
a sludge crescendo of a quasi
cascade of sludge gluing the
whole theater into
a replica of a Russian drinking game...
.... ⠞⠓
... ⠑⠁⠑
... ⠞⠑
............ ⠞
... ⠥ ⠎
: : : - ⠎
........ : .... ⠕?
100 wolves of the continent...
for, but 1, fox,
of the English isles...
i'll settle for that ratio...
and then i'll bite to ensure
a signature!
howl all you want...
but have you ever found seagulls
annoying up the river?
more annoying than magpies
or crows?
the wolves can howl
all they want..
ever endear the ear
to hear a fox "laughing"?
no?
might as well listen to me.
i cradle that sound,
above the chariots
of a human newborn...
i grieve!
i am... sombre gsture...
a past, a passing,
a future, a wicker man within:
torch...
banquette of souls!
let's interlude -
touko "tom" laaksonen -
how can people "do" sober
when entertaining such
extravagances....
is it empathy, or sympathy?
in the name of the either,
with either being the sum
of what wll never be a sum
allowance,....
to gain from...
why not
****-ease up the ****
for a zeppelin-esque
bomb drop -
(minor the Nagasaki) -
and hand-piked ****
with the cusp of your hand -
throne of thrones -
flagship?
"king of kings":
like ****...
the holy trinity of
the no. 1, as the no. 2,
and subsequently the no. 3:
**** (father),
take a **** (son)...
******* (the holy ghosts)...
king of kings,
never sat on the throne
of thrones...
i always hated "artists"...
painters -
plagiarists -
cheque sketchers...
plagiarists...
******* indentation
from holding a pen to add to having
exposure to a grammatical examination...
quality cinema:
panorama take on a versus of
heavy editing...
and there was a time
frame to encompass dialogue...
somehow it fits:
the verbal myopic -
the entire pre-
& post- canvas of a blinking eye...
always the question of the
pre-industrialißed sketch;
words predating metaphor
akin to -
words versus metaphor
in genesis -
format? anecdotal.
in writing:
by one hand alone,
made into two...
my, my...
what a ****** self-portrait
"assumption"...
a self-portrait...
a wish for color,
with nothing to show,
but the relief of encompassed bones;
that become a disembodied
skeleton - minus a purpose
of tendon attachments...
∟ "contra" Δ -
equilateral my ***...
a few days spent within the confines
of a Promethean *****,
there be, elemental insomnia
of an electric bespoke...
if Prometheus stole fire,
who, in in all for ****'s sake
stole the saber of Zeus,
the thunderbolt -
electricity, who?
who craved the insomnia?!
this Frankenstein-esque
insomnia-zombification -
white as is white:
with all the dermatological
copper take on broken shins...
should ivory coco -
come between piglet *** copper
auburn in terms of autumn...
******...
*******!
take your ****** *** elsewhere,
and then... start spelling
it with a missing G...
when citing Niger...
you do the double dip of the NBA...
you count the second dip...
why do i love Batman as the best
superhero?
not of his superhero powers,
he has none...
his enemies are
the only interesting
counter-factoids of
having implemented an existence
for.
there is no exacting of
a superhero,..
but there is enough
to mind an antithesis...
tylko wieśniak
by wydział film w tym,
bo sie nie rusze -
cegła, kamień -
pień - mur -
i by mówił - w tym
co zamarzło -
to co ostygłe -
w co z tym samym -
meine filmisch -
i skakaniem świec -
od i na nagim cieniem -
pytać nad pyche -
tanz! tanz!
moje iskry słów...
sto! i lat,
o wielbłąd churem o
grzbiet da, i da,
iskra; alfabetu!
bogiem impromptu
o czym warty: -gień.
- suppose a moon, suppose a shadow,
by candlelight - within the confines of
mercury - that quickened silver -
some edgy urban solo -
as a bricklayer or a cobbler -
shoes that deviate from ushering
an echo -
i could raise children and keep
a woman: only if she decided
upon not allowing me
a leash -
what a saddening affair
of minds and freedom...
chicken doctoral -
i don't know: vanity of the impossible
mortal gain...
the monkey onomatopoeia
within the confines of a custard
of lexicon....
that Victorian image proof
source of envisioned Braille in
the confines of a primate...
handwriting:
itches, scratches, chicken esque
clucking... which is what
handwriting looks like these days,
what, with the coding...
semi plumber,
half the electrician...
and certainly null when it comes
to calligraphic invigoration...
- homosexuality was always a contingency
escapade to release suppressed yearnings -
a sudden but a non-fulfillment questioning
celibacy...
you can enforce curbing homosexuality,
but then there are two outlets...
the perversity: or the question...
of Ayn and Sophia...
greeks ****** the hebrews in the hole
without an outlet - zee heed: with a missing A...
Ayn - Aleph -
twin Adam -
perhaps a Siamese abomination...
mind you... the forbidden fruit?
sounds more like... the forbidden flesh...
thee burdensome walking
the already burdened earth: as the fruit,
somewhere between the flesh of man's last predator,
contained, on land, and his hidden desire
for revenge and introspection,
a denial of commonality and shared purpose -
thou shall not consume
that which also hunts you -
little or no concern with equal
measure of forbidding, that which you pet...
the forbidden "fruit",
in between the flesh of a sabertooth tiger,
and Cain's fruit of famine and incompetence:
cannibalism...
and why would you think about
drinking a ms. amber with pepsi...
pepsi! to coca -
and not slide in a slice of lemon
while you're at it?
terrible mistake...
well... one way to get y'er vit amins...
and why is it that all the best
movies these days are about homosexuals?
the dutch girl for starters...
me, drinking, watching t.v.?
either **** good drama,
a western,
or a movie about a *******
homosexual...
did i mention that i think that
homosexuality is an auxiliary escapade plan?
natural, of course,
but i'd hate to have to life
a doubled up life -
then again...
perhaps i would...
me? i have a new girlfriend -
Sophia - and her ****: Philip -
so am i expected to make demands
for the child they might end up
called Ayn, or Aleph?
- the Wahhabi hypocrisy
concerning music, or rather, censoring it...
but... but i thought the adhan:
the call to prayer: was sung,
rather than abiding by the catholic
credo murmur?
no?
my bad... you know better...
i'll send you a postcard from
the Galapagos Islands,
if i find the time, to find:
that 4th dimensional concept doing
the trigonometric shoom! elsewhere -
on a tangen "bias": **** knows where -
like a comet - missing a tail -
shoom! gone.
shrapnel:
not enough thrills for a hard-on...
... images... drawings...
apparently fine art is not enough
stimulation to ******* to for these Arabs...
****? ..... in general?
cartoons.... cartoons of women....
... because?
well... apparently the niqab...
extends beyond the realm of...
readily available attire...
women on the street?
pornographic "actresses"?
you see the cartoon?
it's all ******* ******...
oh don't get me wrong...
amy adams?
buff as an exploding Hindenburg...
the pale ginger - milchskin...
- unrelated:
how about i sneak a skunk into
a coco chanel perfumery -
while advocating that people will still
call it a: scent just shy of roses and strawberries.
- people have heard of incels -
but have they heard of Vcels?
huh?!
yeah, yeah... voluntary celibacy -
i know what a ****** sounds and looks like -
and, to be honest?
there's hardly any rhetorical ***
involved -
a bit like jerking off...
monkish chants -
Byzantine -
the fear of man,
when his own inability flourishes:
in a woman...
these acts have become well trodden...
so well trodden that i'm
authentically surprised that anyone
would still goosestep them into
their mundane plagiarism's existence...
replica invigoration:
turns out...
zeit ist nicht gerade, aber
kreisförmig...
touko "tom" laaksonen...
i.e. tom of finland...
question: you think a macron over
one of those As
would do the trick in terms
of spelling correction?
touko "tom" laaksonen...
you seriously can only watch European cinema
while drinking...
again... invigorating the english language:
one baby step at a time -
a simple grapheme -
the vater's S Z interchangeability -
synchronised contra synchronized -
settled -
synchronißed -
sometimes the slithering S
of a snake -
otherwise the rigid totem with
a torso of a zebra...
hardly a major investment -
but when i see English having moved
from the Elizabethan Shaky Steward of
thou etc. -
imitating ancient Latin -
coordinating the Greenwich study of
dyslexia...
Joyce...
no diacritical application?
hell...
might as well release a bull
into a China shop...
or a rottweiler into chicken shack...
still... why is there an orthographic aesthetic
in practice, hovering over I and J,
when there's no difference, as suggested
in CAPiTAL letterIng?
ah... i see...
the english "think" they can bypass the para-
frontier, and the orthographic frontier
and race down to the metaphysics...
first?
you explain why it's i and not ι,
and why it's j and not ȷ.