Your fragile mineral assemblage
Your watery solute
Here comes your dissolution

Your social practices
Your dependencies
Your fear of abandonment

Your many cravings
Never to be pleased
Your susceptibilities

Your senses gratified
Or offended
As the case may be

Your experiences
Your learned abilities
Your autonomic reflexes

Your hostilities
Ready at defense
Your struggle for existence

Poor humans
Not fastened to a dying animal
But the dying animal itself