The Vi Editor
Today I write, typing
gracefully. My hands do not
leave the keyboard. 
Efficiency taken to the extreme
is stillness.
I write, edit and think with hjkl /? ia   
I do not move.
These ideals of mine
are not disturbed 
by unnecessary musculature.




  Flesh begets flesh.
She eats flesh dogmatically.
She is trapped by her flesh.
She diets fastidiously
while she consumes her flesh.
She adjusts her fat belly
and explains herself in detail.
 



  Infestation Of Dogs 
The air smells of dogs
The year is 1997 or perhaps
3 bne (Before New Era),
I live in Manhattan,
and the dogs are everywhere.
I saw a well dressed old woman
crouching to pick up
a glob of dog doo. 
She smiled at me mid-swipe.
I am told young fertile women
and men use dogs as part of their
mating ritual. 


 

  I Love Your Fish
I propose that New York's
new slogan be, I Love Your Fish.
The sense of smell
is vital to our ability to remember.
The smell of our fish
will thereby be a permanent souveneir
for tourists.


The Vegetable Season Has Begun
We are Reform Vegans
and we will eat our vegetables
regardless of whether they have families,
feelings, admirers,
or if they are important to your ecosystems.


(Excerpts translated from Isaiah)
And the sins of the generation
were abhorent so that His rage
and disappointment were terrrible.
And He sent His Angel of Death,
and Life to stir a mighty host.

...

From a distant land
a horrible crash shook the heavens
and the sky grew gray. 
The Egyptian farmers
thought, locust,
and covered their crops.
The mighty northern boat-men
gathered their loved ones
and left for a long trip
into the remote North most waters.

...

Thousands of Reform Vegans
ravaged the land,
indominatable and insatiable, 
until that land, 
so fat, fertilized
with the flesh,
was made into dust.




by Gidon Wise. Main poetry index