The Dog Artist

the dog artist
starved a dog
as a work of
art

and it wilted
and died
and he was asked
to leave
the art show

then they threatened
him

they showed him their inhumanity

they are more violent

their women are even skinnier, more anorexic.

the consciousness of the dog
is the consciousness of all things
and even this defies the dead

Galvani rammed rods
in the
frogs legs
and when they
twitched
he said
Look there is the force of life

but it was electricity

Volta came along
and said
No, not life
but of anything
and then built
a pile
and made
a battery

but consciousness is electricity

we are still in the Galvanic age of the mind
Pre-Copernican consciousness

but what does it matter what I believe

Now back to the artist
and the righteous threats

they take pride in
not seeing beauty
in ugly things.
They are proud
because they can see the ugliness
and only the ugliness,
and those who see only beauty are condemned.

This my dear artist is art and the life of a genius

he let a dog die
but they want to kill him.

This is their art, their murder.

That dog had a sense of smell
hundreds of times keener
yet it could dip it's head
in its own urine and feces without flinching.

That is what human grey matter is for,
to be disgusted,
to hate what it does not know or understand.

A monkey, however, is capable of many sins,
but not this hypocrisy.

Because even a monkey won’t want to kill a monkey
over a dog.