Animalistic

People look most peaceful

when they eat, shit, fuck, kill

the need to answer their alarm

clocks in the morning, flay

themselves of their suits—

the artificial hides of the bull

market—on the coat racks of meat lockers

to linger in their earth-given nudity,

and still, people look most peaceful

when they drink, piss, bleed, chew

on the food for thought that is not

offered by the pecking order, unwind

the cerebral tourniquet to let this

thought bleed freely from the mind,

and yes, people look most peaceful

when they sleep, breathe, feel, live

in the primal bliss of achieving

chimera, right before the realization

that their feet still walk this Earth.