Fear

Catherine Wang is fearful of birds

She wonders why they carry germs under their vile wings

She is fearful of plastic

Every each and one of us have owned and consumed plastic larger than the volume of our body

She is fearful of inflation

All kinds of inflation

bubbles bubbles bubbles bubbles bubbles bubbles and they will not stop bubbling

And pop goes the world

She is fearful of the way pineapple burns her tongue

And kiwi does that too, sometimes

But we don’t stop eating them, oh there’s no way

She is fearful of zombies

How great is that kind of afterlife I dream about it all the time

Yes you do too

She is fearful of her own body

Why is a woman a woman and a man a man

She is a she and she just doesn’t  get it

She is fearful of her mouth

Why did rembrandt paint carcass

And she ate it, just as all the omnivorous humans did

Why is there a pope sitting there in the middle of the carcass, bacon is stupid sometimes

She is fearful of death

Not hers, but everyone elses

Nature morte, please don’t stop moving

Einstein says you are moving when you don’t

But she doesn’t see it, and if she can’t see it, she cannot believe it

God we are so scared of ourselves but we just don't stop loving ourselves

And that’s why she paints