words were uttered, i can't say it was talk, or converse. about how the neocons or simply the republicans, as the democrats call them, sell their children for short-term profit. the words hang there a millisecond and lapse to the ground lacking the air to stay aloft. how do we talk to them is the question, and i say it's moot. how does one talk about life and the sanctity of life to one who believes that free trade is freedom, and profit is life, and the dead were in the way, doing it wrong, no respect for progress, losers. how do we talk to them about the love of life, about the spirit that doesn't register in the accounting, about cooperation. when everything is devoted to competition? when democrats and republicans, neocons alike, are dividing the spoils so callously, unequally, deadly. how do we talk about that. we talk to ourselves and the animals who are listening.