Little Fuckers

Go to the Larco Museum in Lima,

where forebears of modern Mestizos exist

as little clay figures, big as your fist,

screwing in every known position, a schema

Of breeding with no dignity,

by the Mochi of northern, coastal Peru.

They are only clay, but fired and true

to their makers’ impressions of vacuity,

Driven by instinct, insane

human animals, under and over,

mad for the moment, mad for the future;

and they will sear your brain.