No Theory

No theory will stand up to a chicken’s guts
being cleaned out, a hand rammed up
to pull out the wriggling entrails,
the green bile and the bloody liver;
no theory that does not grow sick
at the odor escaping.



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"No Theory" from Figures of the Human © 1948 by David lgnatow. Published by Wesleyan University Press. Used with permission.