Love (Planet-Earth Style)

Dragon's Heart Nebula in Ara, the Altar

LOVE (PLANET-EARTH STYLE)

For the love of my extended tribe
My nation ruthlessly smothers all others.
For the love of our own kind
With corn, wheat, rice, roads and cities
My species carelessly drives
Numerous non-human beings
From their homes.

For the love of this lucky embodiment
Predator Nick feasts on tasty prey.
For the love of me (their sovereign)
Nick's personal antibody assassins wage
Hundreds of necessary genocides.

Someday I too will die
From a greater love than me
Wondering whether other worlds require
A love based on biology.

Rosie's First Time

ROSIE'S FIRST TIME

It was Rosie's first time

And it hurt

It hurt big

Balled up hard inside her ass

Like a constipated Christmas dinner

It hurt

Rosie screamed

So loud it rattled the neighbor's china

She didn't even wake them

They had heard it before

It was her own business

What Rosie did next door

Rosie was a red head

And no dumb chick

She'd heard about anal

Considered it sick

But all of her sisters

Were into it big

Was she just uptight?

An old-fashioned prig?

Rosie screamed again

It was more like a shriek

She knew her rear passage

Would ache for a week

Males have it easy

Males just walk away

Males leave the pain to women

It was always this way

Right on top of Rosie's fear

Came the dread intuition:

Would the police find her dead

In some awkward position?

Then Rosie went crazy

It was stuck up her chute

Her shrieks turned to cackles

Her brain followed suit

For a moment poor Rosie literally lost her mind

Then suddenly it was over

O what a relief!

At last it was done

It wasn't so bad

In fact it was fun

Ya know, Rosie sighed

I really kinda liked it

I'm proud to be female

And I'd do it again

What a beautiful egg

Cackled Rosie the hen.

Chlorophyll Consecration

"Arguably the most important molecule of the biosphere, chlorophyll would be the perfect icon for a science-based, earth-centered religion. In the form of a molecular model, its head and tail might easily replace, for example, the Catholic chalice [or, as illustrated here, the Catholic monstrance]. A nature priestess could hold the iconic molecule by its tail and lift its illuminated golden head, truly the bringer of light to life, glittering high in the air before a reverent congregation, That might even lure me back to the church."

Tyler Volk in "Gaia's Body" Copernicus Press (1998)