This prose poem explores the human as animal. "If an animal has previously suffered escapable shock, and then she suffers inescapable shock, she will be happier than if she has previously not suffered escapable shock — for if she hasn’t, she will only know about being shocked inescapably."

Given how the category of the human has been put under the severest pressure by the terrors of colonialism and imperialism, black thought, which is to say black social life, remains a fruitful site for inhabiting and soliciting the human differential within the general ecology.

“Il faut souffrir doucement les loix de nostre condition. Nous sommes pour vieillir, pour affoiblir, pour estre malades, en despit de toute medecine."