The eyes opaque and thus its hard to really
gauge just how
the Calf or Bull are feeling
but clearly now the Cow
has gone through many
incarnations, and no doubt can tell
us just by looking into her big eyes
that she’s in Hell
living where we’ve put her
on a horrid concrete floor
in a shed the size of Greenwich
spattered with blood and gore
her little calf was stolen
but she carried on she knew
as soon as it dropped from her
what the farmers do
is rob them of her connection
and stomp on them right away
in front of her they killed it
made the baby pay
she saw its back legs kicking
we felt her tears of woe
looking deeply into her eyes
then we all could know
she was raped
she then gave birth
it was kidnapped and murdered
and thown onto the earth
just in front of where she was
and really that is just because
farmers are not philanthropists
its profit the margin it enlists
responses of the banker kind
and a business can’t be undermined
by sentimentality!
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.