Posthuman Blues

Tough time trying to sleep last night; if my dreams were anymore uneasy I would have awoke to find myself transformed into a gigantic insect (or "monstrous vermin," depending on the translation).

Example:

My mom introduces me to a cute piglet which, evidently, she's adopted as a pet.

Shortly thereafter I find the piglet in the kitchen feeding on the severed head of a full-grown pig -- which is somehow still alive, listing from side to side and making strange shapes with its mouth.

I pretend to ignore it and ask my mom the piglet's name.

"Ham," she says.