twinkle toes & the life of the mind
went for a walk
swung their legs
and peacock tailbones,
winging along.
in focus! they yelled at the offal shoremen.
said twinkle toes to her
gerrymandered friend:
whatever you say, their curves are much too flat.
but i just had them done,
said the life of the mind,
what-all do you mean by that?
twinkle toes crinkled rows
cufflinks all in line
teach me how you kick your heels
toenails oh so fine.
but nicely nicely,
the life of the mind had missed the point
while twinkle toes could only laugh
and never age.
Anthropophagy friends, enemies, fiends, and anemones is the lecture I embalm upon thee this Thursday (a word deriving from the day of Thunor or Thor) evening as cold descends in its evil coat riding on its supple goat yet again. You may well know of Hannibal and Silent Lambs but you do not know the actual term for what explodes your moral insides--- our subject here, anthropophagy, i.e the act of humans eating fellow humans i.e. yum yum Johnny Rocket or yum yum Johnny’s Rocket. Anthropophagy, from the ancient Greek, is first seen mentioned in 1632 as condemned by John Featley. Previous
“I wish I could set teeth in the middle of his liver and eat it.”
records however show a different view. Anthropophagy was cited as Universal before Orpheus, who condemned meat-eating: chicken, worm, turkey, cow, and human equally
highly because all animals have souls and may be reincarnations of former human beings, i.e. the chicken sandwich you gobble in one gulp contains the now chemically processed soul of one of your ancestors. So much for that.
Now I wish to be etymologically clear with the terms in question. Anthropophagy is made up of meaningful morphemes…“anthro” meaning, does anyone know?, yes human or man and “anothropo”, anyone?, man-eating. The more vulgar and popularized term you must be familiar with, “cannibalism,” is a product of the gullibility of one of the beloved heroes we are reminded of once a year when we take the day off. It derives from a corruption of the word “Carib;” a peoples from the Caribbean islands who were falsely pigeonholed as man-eaters in some rival-driven gossipery between Colombus and one of the Carib’s neighboring
“I want to rip his lice in half with my teeth”
tribes. Keep in mind he was also told he would soon encounter one-eyed ogres and man-eating men with dog muzzles.
“suck his eyeballs like live gum drops”
Stay aware, boys and girls, such creatures may lurk in the dusky caves of Mesoamerica. Thus, we should abandon this word “cannibal” and its fictitious roots and hold up the torch of truth, beauty,
“before sunset your flesh shall be my roast meat”
and scientific inquiry to light our way as we unfold those remnants of Plato whose power we crumble against, the dark shadows obscuring knowledge. When the Japanese invaded Britain in the 5th century CE they were horrified by the conditions they found; men roasting each other’s limbs on spittoons while wearing purple nylons for preservation of moisture. The industrial revolution
“The savory veal-like taste of the muscles”
was put off at least 14 centuries by this practice which decimated the ranks of the social superstructure. The end of the world would have undoubtedly come“peeling the belly skin to reveal oily fat beneath”
in the 8th century due to the ferocious child of industry,
“then dicing it into half-inch cubes with half a teaspoon of salt sprinkled over the bunch”
global warming had not cannibalism propogated what you, my friends, term continuous
barbarism. Comrades, boys and girls, cannibalism, or some force that is equally good-tasting, is our only hope! Rather than eat Mother Earth let us turn to our human brothers for sustenance!
