Some where in Kentucky at a Stockyards
\na pleasant September, if I recall
\na downer that’s a full grown cow
\nwho couldn’t move at all
\nlame from all the milking
\nher life had been a strain
\nin less than half of her allotted
\ntime on earth
\nit was very plain
\nall she could do was lie there
\nin the filthy sun baked truck
\nrealising in her heart
\nthat she’d used up all her luck<\/p>\n
she was suffering like crazy
\nher joints were stiff with pain
\nwhy had she come into this world
\nto hear this sad refrain
\nto see how humans felt about her
\nhow they didn’t care
\nhow they left her feeling
\nin the pit of dark despair
\nthey came and started prodding her
\nand kicking her, for she
\nwas taking up space in a truck
\nwhere she just shouldn’t be<\/p>\n
those electric prods were burning her
\nbut she just felt nonchalantly
\nthat whatever they were doing
\nwell, it had to be
\nshe lay there looking into space
\nhopeful somehow, she
\ncould leave this awful world behind
\nwhere nobody was free<\/p>\n
they tied a rope around her neck
\nand one around a pole
\nand reversed the truck and
\nshe slid out this very heavy soul
\ndown she fell onto the ground
\nboth hind legs she snapped
\nit also crushed her pelvis
\nin more pain she was wrapped<\/p>\n
egregious torture
\nand laughter from the men
\nnobody gave thought to care
\nthe cow was wondering when
\nthe mortal plain would disappear
\nand she could leave and go
\nsomewhere where the pain was less
\nshe wanted this you know<\/p>\n
the sun was burning down on her
\nshe felt relieved to pass
\nto urinate and defecate
\nand they as bold as brass
\nwouldn’t give her water
\nand certainly no care
\nthey left her laying in her mess
\ncompletely unaware<\/p>\n
she felt so uncomfortable
\nsmelling all that muck
\nand somehow pulled herself away
\na few yards
\nthat did suck!
\nto see her strain and struggle
\njust to get out of the mess
\nto try and find some clean ground
\nno one could want for less<\/p>\n
and using whatever energy she had left
\nshe managed to
\ndrag her painful body
\non whatever was left she drew
\nshe lay there till the evening
\nshe must have felt so sad
\nthe humans were not sentient
\nshe never thought she had<\/p>\n
realised exactly the extent
\nof where they were
\nbut thinking back on it
\nshe was able to concur
\nthey were spiritless and lacked
\nany emotion she for saw
\nan end for them in some dark place
\nwhere they dare not ask for more<\/p>\n
she lay there kind of thinking
\nback on the life she’d had
\nraped and beaten many times
\nand feeling just so sad
\nhow they had taken her calves away
\nand killed them on the spot
\nand how she had died inside herself
\nand that all this pain had not<\/p>\n
prevented her from remembering
\nhow she was milked to death
\nto feed the massive human tribe
\nwith her babies denied breath
\nremembering how they gasped in pain
\nas each one’s eyes closed tight
\na life snuffed out without a doubt
\nall stolen from the light<\/p>\n
creation had attempted to
\nprovide her offspring every time
\nboth were good and both were true
\nbut both not worth a dime
\nboth were male
\nand useless all they would do
\nwas eat
\nno money could be made from them
\nthey were just dead meat <\/p>\n
and so the rusty sickle
\nthe murderers stock in trade
\nwas brought into our being
\nand their bodies quickly laid
\nbefore me
\nI could see them
\nbabies after all
\nwho were life
\nand it was taken
\nby some ugly troll like fool<\/p>\n
the shock was always weakening
\ninternal bleeding was
\ndragging her away from life
\nreally now because
\nthe really total heartlessness
\nfrom the stock men around a bout
\nshe never heard a kind word spoken
\nand had no call to doubt <\/p>\n
the monstrousness and evil
\nthat she was facing there
\nuntil a animal rights soul came
\nyes one of the rare
\nsouls that help the animals
\nshe gave her water, and
\nit must have been a godsend
\nto feel a human hand<\/p>\n
laid on her in kindness
\nrather than in wrath
\na little bit of tenderness
\non this brutal path
\nJessie left at 3 o’clock
\nand came back in less than 2
\nthe cow was being attacked by dogs
\nwho seemingly did chew<\/p>\n
into her sick body
\nby now her eyes a glaze
\nhow she managed to stay alive
\nand see through her blood haze
\nreally I cant imagine
\nand really no one knows
\nthe police came
\nbut they went away
\nand she was much the same<\/p>\n
and finally we saw
\nthe butcher and he shot her through
\nexposing yet more blood and gore
\nthat’s what butchers do
\n300 dollars or so she cost
\nand she was dragged away
\na downer who had finally left this planet
\nso to say<\/p>\n
her life had been so dismal
\nso unfortunate and we
\nhad let this evil happen
\nwe preferred not to see
\noh yes we may have drunk her stolen milk
\nand ate the cheese
\nforgetting each time she had given birth
\nhow they did seize <\/p>\n
them
\nand just do away with them
\nso humans could partake
\nall the milk belonged to them
\nnothing for her poor rake
\nshe watched it gasping at her feet
\ninstinctively it knew
\nher milk was close by
\nbut of course it all was mean’t for you<\/p>\n
and you and you and you and you
\nfor cream
\nfor cheese for you
\nall her babies lost out
\nfor that is what they do
\nevery baby dies a death
\nas soon as it is born
\nand every mother cries aloud
\nas her babies torn<\/p>\n
just one poor soul’s passing
\nyou have witnessed in this rhyme
\nbut really this has been happening
\nsince the birth of time
\nbillions of little babies
\nthe holocaust is there’s
\nthe animals have given up
\never saying prayers<\/p>\n
for nobody was listening
\nnobody did care
\nnobody came to their aid
\nno one was aware
\nthe downers and there are many
\nand many more each day
\nas the human tribe get more obese
\nand many pass a way<\/p>\n
loaded with bovine growth hormone
\ntheir bodies are so racked and torn
\nand nobody outside the dairy
\napparently is there to warn
\nnot to sup milk from our udders
\nits only babies now who
\ncan take this rich creamy milk which is ours
\ninclude the chemical stew<\/p>\n
karma is growing as sick cows are lowing
\nyou have read this and now know its true
\nso many calves have been broken and put down
\nand really its all down to you
\nyour ignorance and all that arrogant stuff
\nwith the dairies as rich as can be
\nbut far far away in the summer land fields
\nperhaps you will bump into me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some where in Kentucky at a Stockyards a pleasant September, if I recall a downer that’s a full grown cow who couldn’t move at all lame from all the milking her life had been a strain in less than half … Continue reading