#godsong

On Earth Day, a vision of global and local cooperation from the poet Amit Majmudar, from his collection Dothead. Majmudar is also a novelist and the author of the recent Godsong, a verse translation of the Bhagavad-Gita.

Joint Effort

             Let the hunchback lie hump down upon the Bactrian camel. On that snug foundation let the leper stand tiptoe, balancing the cripple’s cane on his nose, while the cripple, upside down, balances atop the cane, index finger on the hook handle. Let the cripple’s legs scissor and interlock with the gymnast’s, whose chalked hands should support the flat-footed orangutan. Let the orangutan be trained beforehand to hold a dead veteran overhead, the body draped. On the veteran’s shoulders and hips let the retiree align the rubber-nubbin feet of his walker and, standing tall, wear a hard hat with a flagpole coming off it, atop that flagpole a circus elephant, one leathery foot planted, the body rocking back. On the top curve of that elephant’s S-shaped trunk let the seal lie arching its back, on its whiskery snout a beach ball that looks like a globe, spinning. Let the five-star general clap his hands on that beach ball. You know he wants to. Let him do a handstand on it. Feet on his feet, let the poet turning clockwise support a fruit bat on his head, and let that fruit bat in turn support a larger fruit bat, between whose ears should rest the toe of the ballerina’s vertical left shoe. Let the ballerina hold the stepladder steady. At this point, the tower will have crossed the cloud cover; the shelf should be in view, and what is kept upon the shelf. Now let the child skip school. Let the child climb the tower to its tippy top and place her hand inside the jar and bring the cookies to earth. More on this book and author: 

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this isn’t me being prudish and dunking on something because It Have Sex In It.. i’m just happy and proud! ‘cause growing up in my early tweens, a boy my age showed me the catgirl care guide and then Nekopara. and I wasn’t really sure WHY because I was just 13, but it didn’t sit right with me.. it made me sad and angry because I didn’t understand why catgirls were being treated like objects? sex toys? their bonds didn’t mean anything because it all has to be soiled for someone’s entertainment.. ouhh and then I realized the deep-rooted influence of misogyny on the trope.

And then I got really autistic about domestic cat behavior and speculative biology. (　´∀｀) I really love the IDEA of catgirls but never the execution (until DunMeshi). I think probably being an autistic animal girl had to do with that. In around 2018, Elon Muskrat (an insult to the humble semiaquatic rodent) would make comments about someday making genetically engineered catgirls. Hearing that I would always be like “Ok! Let’s explore why this would or would not work!!” These days, though, I think he changed it up to robot catgirls…

But, anyways—if you bother to think about the ethics of a genetically engineered catgirl, there’s already a dark, dark underbelly people have explored time and time again. It’s just a stupid idea. (╬☉д⊙) But.. we already are living in a future where millionaires and nerd-manbabies-who-are-basically-president will both cut corners and do basically everything in their power to make a bad thing work. For money! For power!! Writing about catgirls, something that is just.. so so unavoidable, is how BAD it is?! This isn’t going to work! Why would you want an animal like this in your house?! (ﾟ益ﾟ) Some corners I’ve had to cut already involve shortening the size of the canines, because, otherwise, a catgirl would have canines several inches long like a fuckogn chimpanzee and then one bite is giving you severe irreparable nerve damage for life. But cute sex slaves.. right..? right..?

If you own a cat or have seen, like.. ANY cat.. do you understand how horrible it’d be if they were 5 feet tall.. People fail to understand this because a doting, obedient, lobotomized?? woman is just soooo sexy yaaay! Cats are one of the least obedient domestic animals ever. >_> Imagine a roommate that effortlessly pushes the air fryer or electric kettle off the island so she can lay on top. It’s funny but you’re going to want to kill yourself eventually!!!! Some cats are better in pairs, or small groups.. is it okay that while you rest for work in the morning, there’s basically fully-grown adults running around in the dead of night, giggling and throwing each other into the ground, knocking everything off of every surface? of course you are! It’s cute! Now get to work, wage slave.. I hope your catgirls don’t chew through cables while you work off the debt you accumulated paying for them…

anyways. another thing. The sexualization of the estrus cycle in cats.. it’s so odd..!! When the light conditions are right she’ll scream and yell basically all the time and become restless and try to escape. It’s a good thing she has opposable thumbs and the sapience to do so. Good luck. (-᷄◞८̻◟-᷅) I have written about reproductive physiology in my catgirls, but it’s entirely clinical and mostly neutral (maybe it’s negative to mention relevant pathologies that stem from it, and the psychological effects on catgirls? lol..)