6 Poems: Tiny Helicopters With Crimson Loads, Lab Animals Fight Back, Cows' Milk & Other Poems

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A Fellow Creature

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LAB ANIMALS FIGHT BACK


Sometimes before they are killed lab animals
fight.
They might their abusers scratch or bite.
Only human torture could
turn a gentle rabbit into a shortlived warrior.
But human sadists in a lab have all
the might.

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TINY HELICOPTERS WITH CRIMSON LOADS
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They let mosquitoes nurse..
on their bare arms..
and watch as the tiny helicopters
take off with crimson fuel
in their tanks


COWS' MILK


Cows' milk contains

carcinogenic casein and female

hormones, mucus and lipids.

It was designed for baby calves

not humans, this liquid.


http://notmilk.com


AVOIDING POISON


Those who avoid buying

killer poisons to eliminate rats

are less likely to be accused

of killing human beings.


NEGLECT


After a storm on wet mud

the dairy cow slipped.

Her left legs went one

way, her right another

in a forced split.

She lay on the ground

untended for several days.

Finally she died ... no

human to help did her lift.


FEED THE HUNGRY


Those who tell others to

feed the hungry often

exempt rats, mice, raccoons.

God made no such exemptions.



 

-saiom shriver-

 

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Footnote:

Saint of Shirdi: Never
harm a snake or a scorpion
(or a mosquito or bee
or wasp)..
He will harm you only
if ordered by God. if
so ordered there is
nothing you can do about it.

 

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darkpool's picture

Okay, I too respect life, but I don't hesitate to kill biting and bloodsucking insects. I am one of those people around whom mosquitoes, blackflies and wasps hover and strafe. My wife bought me a battery-powered fly-swatting racquet which I intend to use with great pleasure this spring and summer.

I don't enjoy being preyed upon.

Ken