Symbroska Poem

I'm a little confused by what might be happening within the poem.

I read it, as the point of view from a towns person waiting to watch an experiment preformed. I find it weird that the head, the main focus of the poem, is not the main part of the experiment.

The repetition of the word "it" rather than he or she shows the lack of humanity the test subject it shown. Not only that, but it is even stranger that the head was just cut off - there are no comments that would lead the reader to believe the author is apposed to this treatment. I find it hard to believe that there aren't any comments on the actual removal of the head from the body.

Again, the repetition of the word "it" shows distance. It doesn't make since not to call it a "he" or possibly a "she." It's one think if the gender is unknown, or maybe if the head was brought in alone and the person had not just been on unit in front of them. How is the detachment of the head so dehumanizing? A human head is a human head...

Why is it that when the author brings the readers attention to a dog, the word "dog" is actually used? Wouldn't it make more sense to say the "human" or even the "human head." Why is the human head within this experiment more a lab rat than an animal?

The final paragraph, which reads:
"I thought about happiness and was frightened.
For if that's all life is about,
the head
was happy."

I feel like the author is trying to say, a head is able to function and respond to the world around it. Life its self is a pool of interactions that function and respond to one another. The head is able to do so, therefore it must be happy. Its a scary thought that life, and everything that comes with it, in the end can seem so minute and meaningless.