the end is nearer than we think

An ocean of live chickens
swallowed and gone
eviscerated
it goes on and on
each one had a heart
and a soul
and a voice
but living in China
they don’t have a choice

they are cogs in a wheel
ever turning today
nothing survives
only dismay
at how as we grow
as we feel richer by
the experience sadly
others must die

but only the operatives
has this in mind
the rest of us
robotised seemingly blind
we know there were chickens
and pigs and of course
cows being milked
many by force
but they somehow
are filed in the back of our mind
lost in our senses
part of the grind

the operatives
hundreds of them dressed in pink
with little blue aprons
no one sees the link
no one sees them actually
sees what they do
they dismember the corpses
and pack them for you

you go to the superstore
trolleys away
and you pick a joint
enclosed in a tray
that once was a chicken
a pig maybe they
lived in a factory
far far away

and what do you do with it
you take it home
cook it and eat it
life in monochrome
its about sameness
your locked in the sphere
and so unaware of the masses of fear

that passed the blood barrier
into your soul
that created in you a new form
of control
a chip almost found in the fibres
of life
that you reinstated with your
fork and knife

and how would you realise
where it came from
how it was doctored
with such aplomb
digital wizards had incorporated
the cyber chips
and they exaggerated
your need for chicken
your insatiable need
to be more mechanical
in how you feed

the vegan however
termed mutant to some
that’s the carnivore corporates
who are themselves dumb
having lost their perception
their human belief
and who live in the now
in their CAFO relief

the age of machines
and the cyber controlled
the matrix is out there
the people were polled
lists of them everywhere
filed on the screen
analysed by the great
CAFO machine

who lives in the shadows?
who sups from the plant?
who forgoes the animals flesh
and who can’t ?
steal from the calf from the kid
from the soul
who remains without chips
a pre GPs role

the vegan of course
macrobiotic as well
an ethical standpoint
the activists tell
of a group who presume
to be fitter than those
who gave up their souls
to the corporate CAFO’s

China is eating vast quantities now
chicken and pork
supping from the cow
the calves they all die
in a melee of pain
and the chips and the digital
pathways do gain

the human spirit
the DNA
its being manipulated so they say
the technology now is machinipulated
robotsized and in fact sedated
this is the control
the end is near
and there’s no going back
you are there
or your here