IMAGEPOEM
PART
SIX
photos and text
by Anthony Weir
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FEARING
ORGIES
the comfort of towns
is the rape of the world
Sex is glass in the heart...
and
Gehenna is not eternity
but everywhere and now.
To be human is to be world-
destroyingly disabled:
we are flies'
eggs
in heaven's
eyes.
July 9th, 2000
A
young bear is forced to stand on the side of a hot dusty road
just outside the Indian capital, Delhi.
He was snatched
from his mother in the wild
when he was a small, defenceless cub.
His teeth and nails were ripped out.
A red-hot needle was forced through his nose
and a rough thick cord has been threaded through.
The wound never heals, it bleeds constantly
and is prone to life-threatening infection
(which might put him out of his misery).
He
has been forced to walk on hot coals.
He is starved and beaten.
When a luxury coach passes and his trainer pulls the rope
he "dances".
Dances!
For tourists.
For civilisation.
For humanity.
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