I Just Ate a Salume
Sunday, September 8, 2013
And it tasted good. Like death, but not mine. Eating meat is the knowledge that we’re not dead flesh yet, our material being torn apart by the ‘wyrms’ becoming dust.
Remember that we are made of dirt. We eat vegetables which are literally made of rearranged dirt powered by the light of the sun. And if you are a carnivore like I am you eat the dead bodies of animals which ate the bodies of vegetables, and so they are also made of earth and light. And when I am dead my family will not fill my body up with chemicals. Because my body belongs to the animals that I killed to eat and the plants that I uprooted and stole from to eat and the dirt I have shoveled into my mouth all my life. My body belongs to the earth and the light.
The most wonderful and terrifying dogma of orthodox Christianity is the resurrection of the body. Whose body? Is this body mine? When the earth consumes me and the sunlight takes me and feeds me to bacteria and worms and flies and plants suck at me with thin white tendrils and a Texas longhorn nibbles at my green hair and when someone eats the bovine’s flesh and lays the cowhide on the floor of their limestone ranch house, when boots trod on me and flowers lain on a stone above my shattered holey skull, Whose body? Is this body mine? Christ take me. I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen. FILED IN UNCATEGORIZED | COMMENTS OFF | PERMALINK