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the body labyrinth    poems by Sharon Berg

 

By Sharon Berg

Established January 3, 2006

Comments since July 26, 2007

 

Pig, I was wrong. You were not tall,

     not a man. It was a myth I fabricated.

     In you the metamorphosis

     has been arrested. I have studied

     the charts of evolution.

     I can tell you something.

 

     Man is a country, a government.

     Man is a faculty that ignores its students.

     You are of some sub-species, I believe,

     just bundled in with the group.

     Yours is the incomplete, the unaccomplished

     Darwinian dream.

 

     I am guilty of such name calling!

     Pig-latin, Pig-greek,

     Pig-german, Pig-indonesian,

     Hawaiian-pig, Uncle Sam's piggy, Ontario pork.

 

     You and I, dear pig, have not come so far

     as great men and their theories.

Personal Myths is the title poem from Personal Myths, the second section of the book. The Body Labyrinth by Sharon Berg (1984) Coach House Press, Ontario, Canada

 

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