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NUMBER 534



When he was just a baby

boy cow, they brought

out the knives, needles,

and red hot branding

irons.. to cut off

his testicles,

burn him with their

brand, and shoot

him full of antibiotics

and vaccinations.

A few months later

they stapled his ears

with numbered tags.

Now he is called a steer,

not a bull, for his name

is reduced to the mutilation

they performed.

He was not a living

being to them, but

an object to be

numbered.

His eyes were bloodshot

from the irritation

of sleeping on his

own and others' fecal

matter. If he had gone

East, he might have

been in an open slatted

truck as the sub zero

temperatures whipped

through the Pennsylvania

mountains. Or if he

were transported

in the summer, he might

have died of thirst,

or been smashed

in the stampede

inside the trailer

as the terrorized

animals bellowed.

At the slaughterhouse

at age 14 months

he was shot

in the head with

a huge metal cylinder.

Because he was luckier

than some, the metal bolt worked

and he was not skinned alive.

As his spirit soared to God,

his body's

weight dropped from

1200 lbs or so to under 800

as they cut off his head,

chopped off his tail and

hooves.



NUMBER 41



Chanel Number 5

which had ambergris from sperm

whales, civet from the civet

cat, musk, each oz. from the castrated

glands of 38 musk oxen, and

castor from the Canadian beaver



Should it have been called

Chanel Number 41?



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