I Prefer Life

We have to wait
for experience.

It's the only way.

Without it,
we are all
children.

Playing in a field
getting stung
by beetles
and stepping in shit.

Shit helps.

But it's not enough.

We need
incarceration,
mutilation,
humiliation.

Everything
we don't
want.

Because
if we were left
in that field,
We'd be
finished.

Extinct.

Like the rest.

Do you
want that?

I sure as fuck
don't.