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The performance of being a human animal.<\/p>

We insist we are more and settle for less.<\/p>

Our bodies remember the fear.<\/p>

You can try to silence it, but it comes regardless,<\/p>

like panic attacks in the supermarket.<\/p>

The animal doesn\u2019t go away, even if we don\u2019t hunt.<\/p>

It just learns table manners.<\/p>

Civilisation is a long-run experiment in denial<\/p>

for those who have a short memory of the time before.<\/p>

At least we aren\u2019t in a cave, we say,<\/p>

as we walk back into our offices,<\/p>

or peasants, who worked fewer hours and slept more.<\/p>

We draw lines, famously, religiously, tragically.<\/p>

We divide the world into categories:<\/p>

clean and unclean,<\/p>

pet and pests,<\/p>

us and the rest.<\/p>

We pretend the lines mean something more than convenience.<\/p>

We curate compassion the way we curate playlists:<\/p>

selective, mood-dependent, easily skipped.<\/p>

Inside, we domesticate.<\/p>

Outside, we dominate.<\/p>

That\u2019s the arrangement.<\/p>

And what we can\u2019t cuddle or eat?<\/p>

The rare ones, the almost-gone ones,<\/p>

we lift them onto pedestals.<\/p>

We mourn them in advance.<\/p>

Extinction becomes an aesthetic.<\/p>

We love them best at the edge of absence.<\/p>

We forget, or maybe never learned,<\/p>

that animals don\u2019t exist to be our metaphors.<\/p>

The wolf doesn\u2019t howl for our loneliness.<\/p>

They are honest to a fault, which unsettles us.<\/p>

We, the clever architects of our own undoing,<\/p>

begin to feel the old animal in us stirring.<\/p>

Our bodies remember the fear<\/p>

that brings us back to the basics: hunger,<\/p>

but for what?<\/p>

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