Let's Cut To The Chase
The Grief Is All About the Body-parts... Right?
How could these five small body
Apertures and appendages cause
Such turmoil among so many

People kill one another over them
Trash their lives... their loves
Their children's lives because of
Parts... how did these pieces of
Flesh become so infused with
Such power... such meaning

Mean just count them... each so
Small... fragile and vulnerable
     The holes into a person
     Mouth - vagina - anus
     The protrusions from them
     Breast - penis

But perhaps it's not the Special
Body-parts themselves... perhaps
It's the perception of Ownership
Of the parts... not my parts
But your parts

Why do I think I can Own your
Body-parts... should Own them
Who gave me such authority
Did you? Was it Kafka's 'Them'?

But if I Own yours... then you
Own mine... do I want that?

These small special Body-parts
Are the portals of bonding... the
Tools to connect lives... even of
New life itself
Instead of Owning your parts...
Your body... and vice versa
Would it not be better if we
Agreed to use these Special
Parts to link our lives together
Along with our minds... our
Spirits... even our souls
One with each Other and
Other Intimate Friends

Let us not try to build our lives
Our love... as captors... as
Exclusive Owners of each
Other's Special Body-parts

Let us use our parts to grow
Our lives and bonds and joy
And happiness and fulfillment

We have more than sufficient
Supplies of these stores of love
To satisfy More Than One

Let us use the parts... the care
And concern... desire... lust
... Not fear or hide from them

Let us be free to love... not free
To hate over something as silly
As five little Body-parts

This insanity has gone on for
Centuries - let us - you and I
Stop it for ourselves and our
Other Intimate friends now...

We don't have to participate
In this madness
Excerpted from
The Little Red Book of Drivel
     Soul Rot and Other Tales of
     Insane Relationships in the
     3rd Millennium