Pig Song

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This is what you changed me to: 
a greypink vegetable with slug
eyes, buttock
incarnate, spreading like a slow turnip,

a skin you stuff so you may feed
in your turn, a stinking wart
of flesh, a large tuber
of blood which munches
and bloats. Very well then. Meanwhile

I have the sky, which is only half 
caged, I have my weed corners, 
I keep myself busy, singing
my song of roots and noses,

my song of dung. Madame,
this song offends you, these grunts 
which you find oppressively sexual, 
mistaking simple greed for lust.

I am yours. If you feed me garbage, 
I will sing a song of garbage. 
This is a hymn.

© Margaret Atwood