{"id":17231,"date":"2014-08-15T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17231"},"modified":"2014-08-16T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:07:13","slug":"the-cowards-and-the-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-cowards-and-the-bull\/","title":{"rendered":"The cowards and the Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>what we think we see<\/p>\n<p>is a bull<\/p>\n<p>a specimen, \u00a0strong<\/p>\n<p>as a bull can \u00a0be<\/p>\n<p>but in point of fact<\/p>\n<p>behind the scenes<\/p>\n<p>its been tortured actually<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its horns are defiled<\/p>\n<p>its eyes are skewered<\/p>\n<p>its blood loss is a lot<\/p>\n<p>its a very angry frustrated<\/p>\n<p>bull<\/p>\n<p>fit, \u00a0No! \u00a0it is not<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the ridiculousness<\/p>\n<p>not apparent<\/p>\n<p>the absurdity is there<\/p>\n<p>grotesque and kind of clownish<\/p>\n<p>its all there in the air<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a tasteless tawdry spectacle<\/p>\n<p>a disconsolate affair<\/p>\n<p>a hopeless comfortless expressionless<\/p>\n<p>picture of despair<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the entourage has softened<\/p>\n<p>up the creature he is tense<\/p>\n<p>in pain and very sore as well<\/p>\n<p>but he can now see sense<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>tortured they have sunk their knives<\/p>\n<p>into his broad back<\/p>\n<p>all his spirit has been sapped<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s kind of on the rack<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s nervous and apprehensive<\/p>\n<p>but never overawed<\/p>\n<p>the satin clad young matador<\/p>\n<p>hopes he wont be gored<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I for one am hopeful<\/p>\n<p>that this prancing dancing queen<\/p>\n<p>will feel the horn<\/p>\n<p>and see the dawn<\/p>\n<p>for he has never been<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>close to the bull&#8217;s brave aura<\/p>\n<p>with his cloak of gold and red<\/p>\n<p>prancing like some sick cartoon<\/p>\n<p>what is in his head<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I dislike his revolting manner<\/p>\n<p>his uncaring point of view<\/p>\n<p>his brazenness, his pomposity<\/p>\n<p>his foppish garish brew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the effrontery and petulance<\/p>\n<p>the brashness that he holds<\/p>\n<p>resigned to humiliation<\/p>\n<p>as the battle thus unfolds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the audience is on the case<\/p>\n<p>a blast with echoes we<\/p>\n<p>suffer with our eardrums<\/p>\n<p>the exclamations \u00a0be<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>irregular and forbidding<\/p>\n<p>the culture of those who<\/p>\n<p>live and die in Spanish rings<\/p>\n<p>ravaged by the few<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the wailing of the spirit<\/p>\n<p>the waning of the heart<\/p>\n<p>the whining of the creatures throat<\/p>\n<p>as the woefulness does start<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>a lamentable creation<\/p>\n<p>we elegize and we<\/p>\n<p>cannot explain its wretchedness<\/p>\n<p>and its loss of gravity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>crestfallen looking haggard<\/p>\n<p>eyes bleeding red and sore<\/p>\n<p>a sea of inflammation<\/p>\n<p>and embarrassed even more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>unable to strike heavily<\/p>\n<p>under enormous strain<\/p>\n<p>and blood loss like a storm surge<\/p>\n<p>a burden in the brain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>more knives are out<\/p>\n<p>more blades are sunk<\/p>\n<p>a gushing feeling there<\/p>\n<p>the lungs are full of mucus<\/p>\n<p>which nobody&#8217;s aware<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the victim was a bold knight<\/p>\n<p>mortified and lost<\/p>\n<p>impoverished by mounting stress<\/p>\n<p>at an ever growing cost<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the bull fight lacking culture<\/p>\n<p>revolting to be sure<\/p>\n<p>detestable behaviour<\/p>\n<p>I mean whats it all for<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>really there&#8217;s no purpose<\/p>\n<p>its functionless and wrong<\/p>\n<p>it has a marked \u00a0irrelevance<\/p>\n<p>which is with me all along<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>motiveless and skittish<\/p>\n<p>erratic in a sense<\/p>\n<p>indisposed to struggle on<\/p>\n<p>and try to leap the fence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>hit out at the audience<\/p>\n<p>draw their wrath and blood<\/p>\n<p>trample over children<\/p>\n<p>and cause really a flood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of tears and fears and wounding&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>the severity is seen<\/p>\n<p>the doggedness of wanting<\/p>\n<p>always to look mean<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the untruthfulness the lying<\/p>\n<p>the deception of it all<\/p>\n<p>the swindling skulduggery<\/p>\n<p>when ones back is against the wall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>more knives are thrust in anger<\/p>\n<p>more blood is spilled for we<\/p>\n<p>can feel the weakness creeping into<\/p>\n<p>what our eyes can see<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the ambush of the devils<\/p>\n<p>the trip wire pulling taut<\/p>\n<p>the guileful artful cunning<\/p>\n<p>that clearly now is sought<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bullfighting a misnomer<\/p>\n<p>an untruthfulness to boot<\/p>\n<p>an evasion of what we can see<\/p>\n<p>a distortion at the root<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>its all about an illusion<\/p>\n<p>a betrayal they conceal<\/p>\n<p>hugger mugger cloak and dagger<\/p>\n<p>his fate they surely seal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s no fight<\/p>\n<p>it was over before it all began<\/p>\n<p>premeditated murder<\/p>\n<p>everything to plan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>random acts of valor<\/p>\n<p>sometimes spring to be<\/p>\n<p>but most bulls die of loss of blood<\/p>\n<p>and trauma actually<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>they sink down on the hot sand<\/p>\n<p>hallucinating there<\/p>\n<p>passing the blood through their lungs<\/p>\n<p>this then is despair<\/p>\n<p>the agony of torture<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the \u00a0delirium creates<\/p>\n<p>the certainty of ending<\/p>\n<p>which rapidly placates<\/p>\n<p>the wounded soul sinks slowly<\/p>\n<p>eyes rolling side to side<\/p>\n<p>and passes over silently<\/p>\n<p>as its spirit is applied<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hathor \u00a0is the warrior God<\/p>\n<p>who listens from on high<\/p>\n<p>who suffers what the bulls now suffer<\/p>\n<p>just before they die<\/p>\n<p>the excruciating trauma<\/p>\n<p>the abject shafts of pain<\/p>\n<p>the sudden strength of motion<\/p>\n<p>that really is all in vain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but Hathor wakes and grinds her teeth<\/p>\n<p>and wants to show her wrath<\/p>\n<p>to take the spirit of each bull<\/p>\n<p>and guide it down a path<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to temperance and self restraint<\/p>\n<p>whilst the matadors will be<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">injected \u00a0with a satanic bug<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and die in agony<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">shaking bodies breaking<\/span><\/p>\n<p>and exploding violently<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There must be, no other outcome<\/p>\n<p>for this entertainment, we<\/p>\n<p>are witness to a murder<\/p>\n<p>to a torturous agony<\/p>\n<p>to taking out a strong 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