{"id":25611,"date":"2016-01-04T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25611"},"modified":"2016-01-04T19:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:45:04","slug":"slaughterhouse-blues-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/slaughterhouse-blues-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaughterhouse blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The slaughterhouse produces buckets<br \/>\nOf tragedy and woe<br \/>\nTears of yesteryears<br \/>\nAnd the eternal flow<br \/>\nWhen the soul cries<br \/>\nThere are no tears<br \/>\nA statement I once read<br \/>\nNo weeping and no wailing<br \/>\nNot a tear is shed<\/p>\n<p>In reality the tragedy<br \/>\nIs heartfelt and its sad<br \/>\nThe Slaughter men they never cry<br \/>\nThey just go fucking mad<br \/>\nAngry they  are misfits many of them poor<br \/>\nOn such dreadful salaries<br \/>\nOf this I am pretty sure<\/p>\n<p>To do a job like this<br \/>\nIs not encouraging<br \/>\nIts frightful seeing those<br \/>\nWho want to be<br \/>\nleft to life<br \/>\nBut forced to die<br \/>\nAnd not of their making<br \/>\nHow cab  a sleeping slaughter man be free<\/p>\n<p>In a clean bed with his natural women<br \/>\nArms around his bloodied shoulders<br \/>\nShe<br \/>\nKisses his dry lips<br \/>\nKnowing he kills animals every day<br \/>\nAnd when he is not with her<br \/>\nWhere he will be<\/p>\n<p>Under clouds of blood that splash down<br \/>\nFrom the gantry<br \/>\nWatching and hearing the females<br \/>\nBleed out where<br \/>\nShe was chained upon a rusty pulley<br \/>\nAnd led into the darkness of despair<\/p>\n<p>When the soul cries there are no tears<br \/>\nPerhaps not<br \/>\nBut thats because the human fails to see<br \/>\nHe himself he doesn&#8217;t cry why should he<br \/>\nHe is psychopath on that rely<br \/>\nThe lamentations I can hear now nightly<br \/>\nCannot be heard by the many who<br \/>\nCook and eat the remnants of the animals<br \/>\nAs so many people really do<\/p>\n<p>All sorts of parts the lungs and of course the liver<br \/>\nThe heart the bladder all of it some eat<br \/>\nTongue who tastes it, the pig whose being eaten<br \/>\nOr the man who eats the tongue sat in the street<br \/>\nThe inner tears of woe are seen by fewer<br \/>\nFor only the slaughter men are in the frame<br \/>\nAnd they are blundering arses among the working classes<br \/>\nWho probably eat the offal just the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slaughterhouse produces buckets Of tragedy and woe Tears of yesteryears And the eternal flow When the soul cries There are no tears A statement I once read No weeping and no wailing Not a tear is shed In reality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/slaughterhouse-blues-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals-used-for-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25615,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions\/25615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}