Sitting in the shade of today's weather is perfect. It's too windy in a good way. My eyes are still half swollen shut after watching 'Earthlings' at 3am in the day. It's tiring how human we are.
"Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and brutal taking of life". That's what our lives are; appetite over suffering, fashion over pain, death over life. We don't own life, we are a part of it. Why have we forgotten? Why do we not care?
I still feel sadness, I still feel despair, I still feel a bone-trembling anger. I want you to feel it too, I want you to be skinned alive (fur), boiled alive (food), burned alive (medical investigation). I want you to hang from hooks upside down with your heart flooding in spills of blood from your throat. I want you to watch your child, your baby, die like this, and for all family and other friends. I want you to writhe, to scream, to shake and collapse because you are more suffering than anything else. I want to throw blunt spears into your flesh and neglect you of hygiene, of space, of shelter, of food and water. I want to inflict pain on you and foster for deformities and disease. I want you to become a cannibal in your own desperation and bite on the flesh that is as much yours as it is mine. I want you I want you I want you to only know death for as long as you have life. We are humans. We make connections to love but we also make war. But I trust the poison we feed them will be the same poison that kills us and in no manner that is soft, quiet and quick, but one of no anesthesia and complete suffering. That's when we can start talking about equality.
*Dick Gregory
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