Who puts claws on the crab\u2019s arms?
\nThe brutality in a shrew\u2019s mouth?
\nThe firestorm in the earth\u2019s heart?
\nWe know what they are.
\nWe keep them in their cages.
\nWe turn violence to our use.
\nDoes its usefulness attract us?
\nLull us to compliancy?
\nHas us risk ourselves
\nand our children?
\nI take a census of the stingers
\nand bites in my garden.
\nReview the sadism
\noffered on the television.
\nNote the pets we keep for comrades
\nat the risk of their jaws and predations.
\nThis is our life.
\nWhat is in our life,
\nand we look on from our parallel world
\nand ask,
\nwhy are we afraid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who puts claws on the crab\u2019s arms? The brutality in a shrew\u2019s mouth? The firestorm in the earth\u2019s heart? We know what they are. We…<\/p>\n