Organ

Sweetbreads are glands,
usually classified as endocrine,
digestive,
or lymphatic,
the thymus and pancreas,
sometimes the testes,
served breaded
and fried
with a dipping sauce
(o the dipping sauce)
to culinary adventurers,
longtime adherents,
or inadvertent stumblers
who in shock
deny what they have eaten
or grow ill and expectorate the
unusual foods.
We are far more accustomed to consuming
skin and muscle and
fat and bone
and more rarely
the brains,

or more rarely the stomach, the kidneys
or more rarely the intestinal tract, the tongue
or even more rarely
the eggs, the ova, the roe.
My organs
are supposed to be
self-contained
parts of my organism
(with a specific vital function)
just as
the organs of an organization
are supposed
to be self-contained
departments
or media for communication
(with a specific vital function)
or the male organ is
supposed to
be self-contained,
an appendage or part
(with a specific vital function),
an instrument or tool or means
for some function,
as the pipe organ
or the mouth organ
or the barrel organ
is a musical instrument
or tool self-contained
(with a specific vital function),
being an appendage
of a larger organization,
a church or an orchestra
or a band or a duo
with the specific vital function
of keeping the organist
the organ grinder
the organism
the organization
alive.
We consume the music
of organs made of meat
and tissue and gland,
singing, dancing meat;
we consume each other,
meat people who dream and think
like the meat animals whom we eat who
chase rabbits in their sleep
by the fireside;
we consume ourselves,
organ by organ
from without and within,
using up the vital essences,
our precious bodily fluids,
pursuing dreams and ideals,
true and false beliefs
guiding our self-abuse,
abuse of the other,
abuse of the self-same.
Work 'til you drop
(don't stop 'til you get enough)
work hard, play harder;
take recreational poison
or poisons prescribed to simplify
your life by
deadening sensations
or flooding your organs
with superior sensations designed
to fix you
and your organic problems
at least as long as you consume
the temporary quick fix
in a gel-coated capsule or un-coated tablet
instead of anything
organic to nature
and readily available to
those who work hard.
The unusual is a delicacy,
the manufactured is commonplace,
we are allowed to consume both;
but what grows of its own accord
must be criminal because it did not
get authorization
from the right internal,
religious,
or local
organ.