Homeostasis: The Body Replies
CIRCULATORY: Cojones! What would happen if the heart decided to beat creatively?
RESPIRATORY: Or if the lungs got bored and took a vacation?
MUSCULAR: Who says it's good to be creative? The future belongs to teams.
URINARY: We don't need any more change. Creativity has already destroyed the planet.
IMMUNE: I like the body shpic und schpan but even my 1 trillion lymphocytes, phagocytes und
macrophages cannot control your wild behavior. I charge you with the blatant disregard of the
balance mechanism of homeostasis. You don't listen to environmental control signals. You are
guilty of invasiveness und metastasis.
RESPIRATORY: I'm sick of your using my lungs to breathe,
URINARY: My kidneys as your ping pongs;
NERVOUS: You are nothing but a parasite living off of our energy supply, our transport system,
our food.
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INTESTINAL: If you're so creative, why can't you drive your own car?
SKELETAL:You have corroded my white-pillared mansion, nestling into my bone marrow like an
eternal rapist. I want my skeleton to be plum gorgeous for posterity.
AURA: You have lacerated my auric field with a black hole. I look like I'm wearing a torn raincoat.
INTEGUMENTARY: You make me ugly, sending your fuckin children up to copulate all over my
beautiful skin, staining it with melanomas...
INTESTINAL: I had so much fun with my shit until you started clogging it.
REPRODUCTIVE: Sacre christ au tabernacle! You are so cruel to fill my womb with your monstres!
SOMATIC NERVOUS: You're kind of thinking is so destructive to the history of western civilisation. It is
so non-linear.
AUTONOMIC NERVOUS: Oh so desuca! Anabolism/Catabolism...you are guilty of cannibalism...
SENSORY: How come cancer has all the fun? I want to play too.
IMMUNE: I charge you with first degree cell slaughter und condemn you to lethal injection, radiation
und surgical excision.
INTESTINAL: What do you want for your last meal?
CANCER: Exhaust fumes, sugar and cigarette smoke. But remember anything that kills me will kill you
first. And I'll have so many kids that my species will never die. Remember, no one is sexier than
Cancer.
Now you decide what you want cancer to do:
1) Succumb gracefully to the pressure of conformity and be part of the team;
2) Escape into the environment;
3) Fight back.