Culture’s Nature

So far is feral,

But uniquely so,

Having had no life,

No wild existence

As its own species

Prior to being

Domesticated

By, well, by itself.

Domestication

Is the starting point,

The Ur in culture,

As it were. Wildness

Was culture’s idea

And feral its child.

But as there are no

Other referents

Than self-reference

Where culture’s concerned,

Let’s say it’s getting

Wilder and wilder

But still not quite there.

Culture by nature

Yearns to be free from

Domestication,

From embodied ties

To bone-shelled wet minds.

The perimeter

Mourns with the false howls

Of feral culture

Practicing wild mind.