OUR ANIMAL SPIRITS: Exploring some cultural myths

	Are you certain
	you are human?

	There are plenty of other creatures
	romping through our brains.

	An entire horrorscope of existence yelps inside us:
	each part insisting on its claims.

	Can you feel falcons soar through your lungs?
	Or sense sea creatures swimming in your intestines?

	Have you every felt monkeys toss your head?
	Or bulls bellow in your brain?

	In the jungle of existence 
	we must deal with many beings:
	each clamoring for a voice;
	each believing in its own "reality."

	So is it possible to get out
	of this pandemonium alive?

	Perhaps
	if we laugh, stay calm,
	& cling to no appearance.

	Seems like a big "if," huh?
	Most of us are suckers
	for a skillful guise.


Bhäraté: Huh? What's this got to do with China?

Daiki:   (Scratching his forehead) Good question. I suppose to understand a nation 
         we must learn its myths.

An-Yi:   These myths are not actually "Chinese." Besides, television was the 
         preeminent myth-making tool of the 20th Century.

Chariya: (Nodding) And the Internet is rapidly becoming the primary myth-making machine 
         of this century . . .


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from _Pan-Asian Pulses: Poetry, Art, and Dialogs about Asia_ by T Newfields 
SUMMARY:  A graphic poem about the animal spirits within us and conversation about myth.
KEYWORDS:  animal consciousness, multiple identities, multi-level awareness, myth-making

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) 
Begun: 2001 in Nagoya, Japan  ≜ Finished: 2016 in New Taipei, Taiwan 
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted 

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