we who die so you can grow fatter

all the above mentioned were families

they believed

they had time to live out their lives

and were mighty aggrieved

to realise that man unkind was after them and they

would have to die and pretty soon

to be cooked on Christmas Day

to die the thought was terrible

the night before they cried

they shuddered and they shivered

and they shit themselves inside

their prayer was very silent

it sort of goes like this

if only more were vegan

our lives  would just be bliss

instead its one of nightmares

to think our children might

be roasted or put in sandwiches

it just doesn’t seem right

by boxing day

the are tired of us

we end up in some stew

or maybe fed to tiddles

who doesn’t know what to do

its such a shame that carnivores

believe their protein source

is us because in point of fact

it just isn’t  of course