Don’t Think Like a Human by Bogdan Dragos

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it was a sad

sight

lately

and the sounds coming

from it were even

sadder

Such was the house

of humans

Full of shouts

and objects banging and

breaking against the walls,

curses against gods,

against parents,

death threats,

agony

and grief

and pure rage

destruction

But not being humans

the two of them

watched from outside,

from their enclosure

outside their pen

“It’s the destiny of

all humans,” she told

him

“To fight each other

to death?” he asked

She nodded

her big, fleshy head,

making her ears flap. “That’s

right. The curse of

those humans is that

they’re trying

too hard

to place a male and

a female in the same space,

have them share the

same life

and actually expect it to

work out. How foolish.”

“Is there really

no way

it can work out?” he asked

“Ah, you’re so young. Barely

more than a piglet,

aren’t you? Look, when it

does work out

between humans… it’s

an exception. Never the rule.

Their curse started with

having fingers

that can grab things

and extended to

having minds that can

grasp concepts

other than food, sleep,

and sex.

To be able to think higher

is a curse, not a blessing. Maybe

they’ll figure it out one day.

Until then,

let us enjoy our lives. Let’s

celebrate, darling. If the humans

are too busy killing themselves

they won’t be slaughtering us

and they’ll soon be our

food

instead of us being theirs. Happy

day! Oh, I am

excited. C’mon, mount me,

darling, let’s celebrate.”

“Mount you?” he said. “But…

aren’t we related?”

“Oh, come now, don’t think

like a human.”

He mounted her

and the

screams coming from inside

the house of humans

accompanied them

like music

It all ended

with a bang

-BOGDAN DRAGOS

Bogdan Dragos supervises casinos for a gambling company, working twelve-hour shifts locked in a dark office full of TV monitors. There he mostly daydreams and writes poems and stories. He also manages a poetry blog Daydreaming as a profession.

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