Zócalo Public SquareTHE CROCODILE’S DOCTRINE – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 THE CROCODILE’S DOCTRINE https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/05/06/the-crocodiles-doctrine/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/05/06/the-crocodiles-doctrine/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 06 May 2016 07:01:46 +0000 By Lynn Wang https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=72758 If it meets and overcomes a man, it swallows him entire, so that nothing remains. But ever after
it laments him as long as it lives. – Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, Book 12, 6:19-20 Appetite is the star-stuff that
sustains us. You who are man
recognizes this: the sharpness
of hunger, then its violence
overwhelming sense—a moon
cracking the sky open like a fist.
And how does one resolve hunger?
Go forth, find your satiety
in the kill. Our kind only
seems able to understand
remorse. This galaxy always
swollen with it.

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]]> If it meets and overcomes a man, it swallows him entire, so that nothing remains. But ever after
it laments him as long as it lives.

– Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, Book 12, 6:19-20

Appetite is the star-stuff that
sustains us. You who are man
recognizes this: the sharpness
of hunger, then its violence
overwhelming sense—a moon
cracking the sky open like a fist.
And how does one resolve hunger?
Go forth, find your satiety
in the kill. Our kind only
seems able to understand
remorse. This galaxy always
swollen with it.

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