LUGLIO

 

17 07 2025 

 

 

23.ANATOMY

Stands the Leopard Prince

Constrained

Confused

Facing one that

Cannot be torn part

Disjointed

Disassembled

They say

-It’s alive

 

But hasn’t life always been

A precondition

The function to be probed

For which the Leopard itself was awarded

With fangs and claws

To break

To crush

To rip

To carve up for dissection

 

Forbidden

How to even talk to it

Forbidden

Its private parts

Forbidden

The messy gobbling up

The sucking dry of soul

They say

-It’s alive

More

-It is an innocent

 

The snowheaded critter

Dog-collared and manacled

Stays

Still

So meek and yet so firm

Baring its crooked teeth

In a lopsided grin.

The fiery beast stands

-That otherworldy strong

That forever young-

Beaten and conquered

Melting down in a roar

Till it exhausts itself

In a wailing

Mew.