18 09 20

Other things that cause discomfort : people picking through the trash for their food. There are those who want “only the best” and those who believe only-the-best is immoral. I would talk about these two impulses, one for comfort, the other for justice, and how one appears animal, the other not that animal at all, for what dog says of her litter, “It is not only my own that should have my milk, but I will suckle the world”? I would like to meet that dog. I am the dog who can never be happy because I am imagining the unhappiness of other dogs.

« The innocent question »
Garments against women
Ahsahta Press 2015
p. 13
états-unis immoralité inconfort poésie poésie américaine