- “New Prospects for Growing Human Replacement Organs in Animals.”
I kiss the stars like I kiss you
under our porch light.
Are you ready, ready
to untangle this Big Sky night
and leap into the sun’s
swashbuckling shine
where a horde of pigs
indulgences in a slop bucket.
Gourmet? Please.
On mud and manure,
my grandfather’s legacy
brims with harvested organs.
If you insist, mama pig’s
liver will be plopped
into a Wisconsin alcoholic
while papa pig’s heart
will find residence
in a woman lugging a galaxy pump
when all she needs
is a solar system.
I need a michelada,
the soft news
seeping through the static
as I sip from my chilled glass
and you, you open your double vision
to a wheat field of constellations.
- Wade, Nicholas. The New York Times. 26 January 2017.
