The Sixth Severed Foot

Okay, so how can we even think about the fact that six feet, that’s right, it is now six feet, have recently washed up on Canadian shores? When the fourth foot appeared a couple of weeks ago, complete with running shoe, as were the others, it was news for a couple of days.

Police reports were exceedingly cautious about this latest foot. First, they said there was no evidence that the foot had been severed from the rest of the body. Then they said there was nothing (nothing definite) to connect it to the other three right feet that had washed up before, which evidentially had been severed from bodies. And then this fourth foot vanished from public consciousness.

his kind of thing is painful to think about because as citizens we have no place to put this kind of information. What does one do with this kind of information? Eject it out of our minds, that’s what. And wish the police and media would do the same. We don’t want to hear about it. We want the police to get on with the drug traffickers, domestic murders, and petty criminals. And tend to a couple of rather violent municipal political politicians who are in dire need of anger management.

But still, like the Pickton pig farm, this foot thing won’t really go away. Perhaps it’s because on a collective level, many of us know or think we know what the fourth severed right foot is about. It’s about revenge. Non-payment of debt. It’s about drugs. It’s about a sick, drug ravaged world.