“Human Congress” — digital collage by Alexander Hirka

Like They Do on Planet Earth

Human Animals and Hills of Beans

“The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to limb
The grunt of unity . . .”
— Leonard Cohen (Paper Thin Hotel)

it doesn’t take much to see that
a few hours
of non-stop
outrageously wild
fucking . . .
full-throttle copulation
congress and coitus
birds and bees
intercourse and intimacy
lovemaking and lust . . .
two human animals’
desire and passion
exchange and reciprocation
energy and fluids
howling and grunting
panting and whimpering . . .
pleasuring themselves
devouring each other
(slaking Mother Nature
on the sidelines
with her self-satisfied smile)—
don’t amount to a hill of beans
in this crazy vast universe
of one billion trillion stars
(in the observable universe).