{"id":25822,"date":"2016-01-13T20:05:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=25822"},"modified":"2016-01-13T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T20:40:09","slug":"how-now-brown-cow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/how-now-brown-cow\/","title":{"rendered":"how now brown cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their streets clothes<br \/>\nThe family arrive<br \/>\nChildren and women<br \/>\nCan that Brown Steer survive<br \/>\nThere are hooks everywhere<br \/>\nAnd a black and white floor<br \/>\nLooks strangely MASONIC<br \/>\nSo whats it all for<\/p>\n<p>The children are hoisted<br \/>\nOn top of the soul<br \/>\nWho is weeping a bit<br \/>\nAnd losing control<br \/>\nDrooling a lot<br \/>\nEyes rolling around<br \/>\nEach child sits down on him<br \/>\nHis heart it does pound<\/p>\n<p>He knows why he is there<br \/>\nThe gantry above<br \/>\nIts a kosher place<br \/>\nA temple of love<br \/>\nBut not the love most of us<br \/>\nWant to accept<br \/>\nRoped up and slaughtered<br \/>\nBy the inept<\/p>\n<p>We hear about kosher<br \/>\nCeremonial stuff<br \/>\nIts all very grim<br \/>\nAnd I have seen enough<br \/>\nAbusing an animal<br \/>\nWaiting to die<br \/>\nIs wrong on all counts<br \/>\nAnd look into his eye<\/p>\n<p>Pink rolling this way<br \/>\nAnd that way he takes<br \/>\nIn the last seconds<br \/>\nBefore his will breaks<br \/>\nA knife thrashes forward<br \/>\nHis throats torn across<br \/>\nA loathing I feel it<br \/>\nThey don!t give a toss<\/p>\n<p>This soul wants to live<br \/>\nWants to feel the sunshine<br \/>\nBut is doomed to feel agony<br \/>\nRight down the line<br \/>\nHe coughs and he splutters<br \/>\nHe screams out aloud<br \/>\nHis detestation<br \/>\nHe was so proud<\/p>\n<p>But their execration<br \/>\nOn this docile beast<br \/>\nTheir caustic behaviour<br \/>\nHe seen as their feast<br \/>\nSo hurtful so resentful<br \/>\nUngenerous too<br \/>\nHard bitten and grim faced<br \/>\nWhat can he do<\/p>\n<p>But give up the fight<br \/>\nAs his air waves are blocked<br \/>\nChoking on blood<br \/>\nAnd mucus so shocked<br \/>\nBut the advent of death<br \/>\nKosher its true<br \/>\nBlessed by the Rabbi<br \/>\nWho knows its all true<\/p>\n<p>He fights for his footing<br \/>\nSliding in his blood<br \/>\nThe slash is so huge<br \/>\nOf course it does flood<br \/>\nOnto his feet<br \/>\nHe cannot stand sure<br \/>\nAnd bumps to the ground<br \/>\nHe can stand no more<\/p>\n<p>These men how they sicken me<br \/>\nNo pity shown<br \/>\nWhere is humanity<br \/>\nHere not home grown<br \/>\nRelentless remorseless<br \/>\nUnpitying sods<br \/>\nUnsympathetic<br \/>\nBest pray to your gods<\/p>\n<p>For karma is out there<br \/>\nYour sad disrespect<br \/>\nLeading to abuse<br \/>\nI would eject<br \/>\nYou all from that slaughterhouse<br \/>\nUncaring slaves<br \/>\nFor you will be punished<br \/>\nAnd no god now saves<\/p>\n<p>Those who demolish the freedoms<br \/>\nOf souls<br \/>\nThose who at death<br \/>\nAre tortured those roles<br \/>\nLaid down by the masters<br \/>\nOn butchers they must<br \/>\nEnd up a writhing in<br \/>\nWhat is disgust<\/p>\n<p>And the vibes<br \/>\nWere just awful<br \/>\nSo matter of fact<br \/>\nOne minute with the family<br \/>\nAs they did enact<br \/>\nThe drama the slaughter<br \/>\nThe evil the woe<br \/>\nThen the children went off<br \/>\nJust part of the show<\/p>\n<p>As to that animal<br \/>\nHow it did feel<br \/>\nThe threat and the menace<br \/>\nIt was clearly real<br \/>\nThe end of its life<br \/>\nA ritual of sorts<br \/>\nAnd all of this drama<br \/>\nLocked up in its thoughts<\/p>\n<p>Purely and simply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their streets clothes The family arrive Children and women Can that Brown Steer survive There are hooks everywhere And a black and white floor Looks strangely MASONIC So whats it all for The children are hoisted On top of &hellip; 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