Bless the Beasts

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A Fellow Creature

In Canada they clubbed the seals.
In Ireland they killed the eels.
Bull fights they waged in Madrid Spain..
a most brutal public kind of pain..
In Galapagos upended tortoise.
In Japan they knifed the porpoise.
In Denmark they slaughtered sows.
In Argentina they killed cows.
In Mexico they beat up donkeys.
In Zaire they caged up monkeys.
In Utah trapped mated raccoons.
In Congo caged baby baboons.
Norway  Iceland Japan and US Inuit
hunted the last remaining whales.
In Ohio they crushed chick males
and caged millions of bird females.
In Virginia they hunted fox
At church gatherings they roasted ox.
In Maine boiled lobsters alive.
They advertised flesh on Channel 5.
Maryland taxes suffocated crabs.
Boston queen of cruel labs
In Korea they ate the dogs..
while in France they de-legged frogs
and Manitoba murdered hogs
Littleton Colorado poisoned
prairie dogs.
In Germany they choked
the geese.
In New Zealand
froze sheep unfleeced.
In China for spare parts they farmed bears.
In New Jersey for pleasure they killed bears.
In Saskatchewan they made Mad Elk & Deer
by feeding to the living the parts of dead deer
S Africans slaughtered elephants for their tusks
Idaho killed musk oxen for their musk.
Near the feedlots of Amarillo
They tried to hit the armadillo.
In Wisconsin they separate cow mothers
from their daughters, from their brothers.
In College Park for Frank Perdue
UM taught skinning rabbits.
In Chile from stolen skin
they made their riding habits.
Israeli jets bombed cows in boats
Ukrainians made animals into coats.
In Egypt they ate
old faithful slave camels.
In Mecca they slaughtered
countless millions of mammals.
In Florida boats defin manatee.
In W. Virginia groundhogs
poisoned on the golfing tee.
50,000 mice and dogs
drowned at U of T.
In Vietnam cut off eyes of shrimp
At UK's Oxford they shocked the chimp.
In Australia clubbed 6 million kangaroo..
Hippo choked on tennis ball
at the Detroit Zoo.
At the stampede in Calgary
they create for calves a Calvary.
Kentucky horses die in barn fires.
and break their legs in the mire.
Water skiers marauded nests of powerless
floating loons.
Careless walkers smashed the nests
of terns in grassbraid dunes.
Chanel for civet harmed the cat
but who is tortured more than rat?
Ermine tongues to greased
traps in Siberia froze.
In Italy calves made veal..
.. especially loved.. flesh of rose.
Oregon cuts 1000 year old trees
while smashing their squirrels birds and bees.
Many hate the gentle cockroach
and upon her life span they encroach

Said one 'I think they're coming
to feed us! '
'No by God! they're coming to eat us! '

Everywhere they're dismembered subdivided
drawn and quartered crucified.
This hell will end... heart by heart..
as each soul wills to do its part.

-

-saiom shriver-

God bless the people of Barcelona Spain who have banned bullfighting... may their
torch ignite all soul lights

This poem is dedicated to Alex Hershaft who
founded and continues tirelessly to work
on the Meatout and WFAD.

Thank You God  Allah Divine Mother Shiva Great Spirit
Higher Power,  by whatever name You are called, for ending today and forever
all violence to any being.

Tony Blair kept his election promise to end
fox hunts in England of more than 2 dogs.
But these hunts continue in Virginia.

S Africa  and Norway also club seals
secretly Canadian
fishermen are involved in whale killing
WorldAnimalNet lists thousands of groups
working together around the world.

Many of these campaigns to stop Canadian seal clubbing, Japanese
and Norwegian whaling, Spanish bullfights, vivisection and animal
slaughter in the US and around the world, are ongoing.

Japanese businessmen buy ivory from the illegal African
elephant slaughter.

***
DRAWN AND QUARTERED, SUBDIVICED, CRUCIFIED

A Carolina tub full of pigs' ears..
but they can no longer hear
A Jewish deli full of cows' tongues
..but they can no longer taste or speak
A Kentucky joint full of chickens' wings
..but they can no longer fly
An African bowl full of calf brains
but they can no longer think
A French tray of ortolans
but they can no longer sing
A Japanese tray of sharks' fins
but they can no longer swim
The tureen of oxtail soup..
but the bull can't swish his tail

And the Chinese restaurant's
plate of eel
Mercifully they can
no longer feel

-saiom shriver-

My muse was Mark Braunstein who wrote
"When one eat's cow's tongue who is tasting whom?"

Author's Notes/Comments: 

http://www.meatout.com
http://www.farmusa.org
http://www.islamveg.com
http://www.hacres.com
http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.plumvillage.org
to Alex Hershaft, concentration survivor who used his reparations money to start the Great American Meatout and who has stood in front of the White House vigiling for peace in Israel & Palestine. http://www.wfad.org God change the role of the U.S. as the biggest killer of animals and exporter of mammals' flesh .. as the biggest vivisector (inflicter of laboratory pain on animals).. as one of 4 whaling nations (with Iceland Japan and Norway) Father Mother God make this a nonviolent world in every respect from and to all beings (It was three Polish mathematicians who cracked the Nazi code)

Thailand has banned logging. Germany may be
the 1st to add animal
rights to its constitution. Hindu India
has the highest percentage
and numbers of vegetarians. Christian
England Jewish Israel
are in the top 5

Oxfam is well named
for its distribution
of meat creates famine.

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I have lived among bright city lights
and have found it a barn yard of crows,

of cows, of pigs, of dogs, and horse
rats and sheep like wolves in mens clothing

each a kingdom unto himself; being Gods,
angels, demons, men, priest;

Queens, kings, subject, beast and planets
revoling around this self like lost dog

heads, chasing to subjegate the tail
making a great deal of nothingness;

animals making mountains out of a mole.
I want to go back to a simple origin

- where everything is and should be
where men are men among peacful animals

and not where animals resemble the polished kin
wearing claws and fangs of ordinarly wicked fools.