Rodeo

Its legal because its
profitable
shocking a horse to make
it buck
its truly awful
such cruelty it does take!
these cowboys so called
ass holes
insensitive’s who fail
to hear or see
the agony
its torture
to assail
look at them
mean spirited
men I wish to be
as far removed from louts like these
for their eyes just fail to see
look at those horses suffering
we can feel their pain
we can see their bulging eyes
and each swollen vein
that drains
what life force
they had in them
away as they conceal
the excruciating vileness
that this madness does reveal
those calves that run the gambit
and feel the rope that burns
pulls them up and threatens
it certainly concerns
any feeling person
who witnesses this show
this terror doesn’t merit
a continuance you know
smashed down and then sat upon
my god I would have hoped
the compassion could now have prevailed
what is this they roped
these babies an induction
that is done so violently
in the background Barbers music
stirs the heart felt sobs in me