[lit-ideas] On Wearing What You Eat
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:32:40 -0500
AN ESSAY ON PAPAL FASHION
The greater subsumes the lesser.
Ergo,
if it's permitted to kill,
then anything less than killing
is permitted as well.
Logic is so logical.
Thank God we have a God,
who never thought it odd
that life should subsist on eating
that of which you've killed --
as long as it's not a human,
that is,
though certainly you can kill a human
given the right reasons
such as witchcraft
or heresy
or astronomy
(not to be confused with astrology
by which we all live),
but you can never eat them --
humans, that is.
It is forbidden to eat humans
even if they're cooked
to perfection
and no matter how hungry you might be
because human bodies
are temples of God
even if it's just a wad
of jumbled up cells.
But as Aquinas
puzzled out,
for wardrobe accessories
it is perfectly all right
to wear what you kill,
though no Pope that I know of
has ever donned
chicken feathers
or shrimp shells
to proclaim his position
as God's representative
on Earth.
I guess the ermine should be proud.
Mike Geary
draped in catfish skins
in Memphis
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