What are we but broken things?
Perfectly-crafted china dolls with the faces smashed in
by the right foot of a defiant child.
Vigorous explorers and learners and lovers
with a south-pointing compass
and books of gibberish
and eyes that desecrate works of art.
We make our lives into backward things:
creating gods in our image;
performing sacrifices and withholding the life blood;
drinking the [...]
