The Once and Future Cannibals

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Open Poetry #15

The Once and Future Cannibals

RSWells
Member Elite

since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2001-09-20 09:22 PM

Unseen the violence
which constitutes every forkfull,
the wrung chicken neck,
the stunning blow to the staggard cattle,
tricked onto slippery surface
insuring a slide before the fall.
Kneeling before executioners.
Hogs hoisted like red dripped
dry cleaning.
Even the living fields,
their tenuous roots clinging,
fragile while swaying
in unanimity to the music of the wind
cut low en masse
by the scythe of certain sacrifice.
Fish yanked individually
or whole schools meshed
to an unkind world of light and dry.

The most valued; young,
caviar, veal, the egg.
The "process"
beheaded, declawed, definned,
deboned, dressed, stripped,
skinned, drawn and quartered,
filleted, trimmed,
scalloped, minced.
To be burned as steak,
boiled in oil,
stuffed,
saute'd,
knifed.

I remember reading in
National Geographic
of a tribe in Africa
which knew what dirt
was best for digestion.

The earth, once eaten
by the growing fields of
billions of Mars and Venus
flytraps with teeth,
will turn on itself
in masochistic mastication.

songstress51
Junior Member

since 2001-09-15

Posts 17
Anytown, USA

1 posted 2001-09-21 07:36 AM

I assume you are a vegetarian? LOL

this is quite different from most work you find on poetry pages, but descriptively you did a good job with it.

Not quite my cup of tea, though!!

run around the world
lookin for what
keep on lookin for
what you aint got

SmittenKitten
Senior Member

since 2001-06-20

Posts 1131
where the sky and horizon meet