How they stripped me like a chicken in a slaughterhouse.
My big eyes all watery and panicked, watching as they waded out.
Comfort in the wood and shed and the termites.
Frost-bite licking toes and bleary corneas goodnight.
Fleshy and exposed like a chicken in a slaughter house.
On that Animal Farm searching for a way out.
10 hour shifts and saucer eyes welling up,
The steady
CLUNK
CLUNK
CLUNK
3 more and it’s me.
Clammy on that table then wrapped in thin plastic.
$4.99 for all my legs and arms and hearts and toe nails.
CLUNK.
The blood seeps coagulated and chunky, unable to move down the drain.
Animal Farm chirps and howls to the night,
Begging for a way out.
There is no way out only through.
CLUNK.
Chopped liver on the greener grass of the outside.
Feed me pellets so when they dissect me,
My soot will spill out.
CLUNK.
Goodnight moon.
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(an important write, thanks for sharing
if you want a really clear example of how ludicrous
capitalism impact on domesticated wildlife has been, lookup
the history of the humble Turkey, to quote:
'As turkey production took off, breeding programs focused instead on packing as much meat as possible onto the bird’s frame. Breeders in the late 1920s began breeding birds that grew rapidly and had large breasts; the nickname for one variety was “Bronze Mae West,” but the industry eventually agreed on calling these new birds Broad Breasted Bronze.')
( https://modernfarmer.com/2014/11/turkeys-got-broad-white-breasts/ )
(and thanks for inspiring my little rant below)
see Capitalism, in its Uncorrupted ideological State, is actually
a tool for Goodness, with immense Potential for impacting
lives of the most Needy, directly
in such a Positive and practically accessible format;
as evidenced by just how many people, Globally
it has offered a tangible path - out
of that abject poverty, they inherited at birth..
BUT!!!!!
In it's current State, where Greed for evermore Opulent
and diabolical levels of wilful ignorance
utilised to cocoon individuals in the Obliviousness needed
to outright - selfishly Deny, the disparity in society
lavishly extravagant Lifestyles can perpetuate, is
staggeringly and Morosely: Pathetic..
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