
“Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.” Henry Louis Gates
Ended When did we valorise the threshold of pain creating heroes of suffering as if bloodied carcasses were somehow a thing of beauty and terminal bodies were heavenly portraits of masochistic willpower, a pulsating distorted erotica, but when the cow lay beyond help out in the paddock, it was the vet who ended the worship with a liturgy of love. Copyright 2021 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®