our greed for profit far exceeds
the need to really be
compassionate and kind
to those we farm
extraordinarily
an ocean of writhing feathers
filthy dirty stalls
they are wallowing in excrement
putrescence kind of calls
some birds decomposing
or being eaten by
other birds contamination
in these great sheds high
unhallowed and unholy
malodorous, the mess
the sounds of squawking hardly walking
manginess no less
from chick to ready for slaughter
in 5 weeks, its a sin
they cannot stand to walk
their bones are just too thin
so many topple over and drop dead
on the spot
their hearts give out
without a doubt
for nothing have they got
a sea of dust gripsthroat and lungs
bacteria so much
really to do this to living creatures
we are out of touch
corporate enslavement
of the farmers and the brood
riddled with debt and mis management
on a scale that’s terribly crude
and they go off to slaughter
riddled with the dirt
festering and tainted
their lives each day they hurt
the buildings that they live in
are dilapidated and bare
full up to the rafters
and much the worse for wear
every where there are rotten bits of birds
lying about
there is such a vulnerability
a nakedness that’s out
of the way and going crazy
vast great sheds of crap
endangering the public
for in all that they trap
tortured and injured
and soulless birds
who have just so much strife
they are all walking hazards
compromised in life
only fed for profit
and of course the knife
and cheapness
its the margin
its the corporates who test nerve
just blackmailing the farmers
who have nothing in reserve
they work their butts off daily
in the hell hole in those sheds
in dust and filth and shit
out of the sick heads
sicko’s who think money
is the god to whom they pray
defying health and caring
for the opposite every day5 weeks of sheer torture
then off to slaughter they
are caught by all the catchers
piece work so to say
but in the great arena
most of the souls are lame
or their bones have
crumbled rapidly
that’s what farmers claim
dirty filthy food is sent off
to the abattoir
many of them already dead
from god knows what
to share
such vile offensive flesh and blood
with unsuspecting souls
who buy it in their fast food meals
is digging more health holes
infections and such allergies
bacterial problems they
might be thinking their chickens cheap
but certainly they will pay
a high price in their internal guts
for the maggoty flesh they ate
for the husbandry that was criminal
and covered up in debt