Honey in the Carcase by Josip Novakovich

Honey in the Carcase by Josip Novakovich

Author:Josip Novakovich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2018-05-05T16:00:00+00:00


MY HAIRS STOOD UP

WE COULD LIVE MORE EASILY in the country, but we like to be where the excitement is. We have always wanted to be around humans, to be as close to them as possible, to be their pets.

We have failed. Humans prefer animals neither as bright nor as capable as we are, with the exception of a few unfixed cats. They keep every imaginable sort of worm, monkey, snake, and marine monster and still would not have us. Oh, some humans keep one variety of our species, guinea pigs. But guinea pigs are nothing more than an inferior breed, and they are treated well by humans because humans are fond of inferiority in others.

I have always admired humans. What intelligence, what perseverance, what industry! I cannot keep up with their technology these days. I used to be able to enjoy their greasy cogs—if you got hungry, you could always get by around oily machines. Now their machines are greaseless, inedible boxes.

Even such a simple thing as a snack is dangerous; much of the food that seems to have been casually left over is poison for us. When tired of cement, you used to be able to take a stroll in the park. Now, you must abstain from eating, and what fun is it to spend a sunny day in the park, starving? The streets are even worse: as soon as you are in the open, humans step on you, throw stones, iron, whatever they have in their front paws. Where did they get this urge to kill? Not even cats are like that. Actually, we are too tough for them. But humans kill and kill and it’s never enough for them. They do it neither to feed themselves, nor to enjoy themselves. Killing disgusts them, and yet they take pride in the ingenuity with which they can destroy us. They hate us. I don’t know how else to explain it. They think we are ugly, and yet they keep bulldogs, who are neither as intelligent nor as good-looking.

Speaking of similarities, I have concluded that humans are similar to us. Humans believe the same thing. Whenever they have questions about themselves, they seek answers with us. If their livers hurt, they test our livers. If their eyes go blind, they test our eyes. The assumption is that if something is harmful to us, it is harmful to them, and that if we don’t understand something, they don’t either. We are siblings, we and humans. They live in walls, so do we. They eat old, burnt food; they even intentionally rot foods in greasy water. I don’t see any essential dissimilarities between us, except that humans are bigger and, therefore, live in bigger holes. Their world is merely our world magnified. And yet, instead of friendship, which we had sought for so long, they feel animosity. We must hide from them, and they need not hide from us, even though they fear us.

I am not exaggerating when I say that their lives are an antithesis to ours.



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