to the garden or the forest
was the distance you took
from everything
towards what was not organised,
what was spontaneous,
which remained 'uncontrolled'' and uncontrollable
it's not the alcohol that you drink or the steak that you convert
but the pre-existing procedures that make a farce of your drinking,
the cow that converts you into an eater 'within reason'
eating does not involve language, only learned ritual, repetition of habit
all bereft of reason