72 Powerless To Protest
As they suffocate
from the suffering
of smothering
fish cannot protest.
As they die of
strangulation
fish cannot scream.
***
(type 'fish cannot scream' in a search
engine for all the toxins in fish)
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First Do No Harm
As she impaled the worm on the
hook she said fishing gave her peace
... as she ripped out their eyes
throats and gills.. without surcease
Why not fish without a hook
without a net
with no intention to harm
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Rain, Grapes, Amrita
The rain turns to grapes
through weaving by grapevines
while Jesus at the marriage
feast
turned water into wine
and the Avatar whenever
he wishes
can turn anything to amrita
divine
***
amrita: nectar of immortality
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Dictionary Edited By Animals
Oven: Crematorium
Knife: Murder weapon
Factory Farm: Auschwitz
Lab Scientist: Serial Killer
Fish And Wildlife Employee: Pawn
Branding: Mutilation
Fisherman: Suffocater
TV Network: Propaganda Machine
Abbatoir Chute: Valley Of Death
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Bubbles Bursting
A frog snatches several bees
and his throat is stung
A beaver fells a tree
the wrong way and it falls on him
A python eats a crocodile
and then ruptures.
Encased in form, in so many ways
do beings'
bubbles burst into the bay of God
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What Do You Call?
What do you call
the decimation of salaries
and the tripling of gas and
food costs?
Official destabilization by
the folks who destabilized
Chile in 73, Australia in 72,
Russia in 91.
How to fight it?
Buy food at farmers' markets.
Barter. Network.
Organize Pray
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Dream: Eagle And Butterfly
In a dark lagoon, an eagle has with his beak impaled the tip of
the wing of a huge butterfly... surprised by the approach of humans
he opens his beak and the butterfly away flies.
(The occupiers of America, the neocon regime, harassing
peaceful activists, but the latter are invulnerable)
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Fed 3 Horses
The narrator spoke
'She fed her 3 horses that morning'
Hippophagy...
a tragedy
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While it is probable that the author meant that she
fed 3 horses in the stable,
horse slaughter occurs at Texas slaughterhouses
and the horse pieces are sent to France and other
hippophagous countries
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Violet Light
God bless the millions of deer
being murdered during hunting
season.... the billions of pigs
being assassinated for the
appetities of humans,
the billions of cows
being killed and all beings
who die by the violence of others.
Victims of violence sometimes
leave their bodies surrounded
by violet light.
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Wars Destroy Wealth
Some people who would not think of
throwing cash into a fireplace
support warmonger candidates.
Everyone knows war is
governmental murder on a mass scale.
Wars destroy wealth.
As the Bush regime has started
fires with bombs in Iraq
and Afghanistan,
the National Guard is in Iraq
and not fighting fires at home.
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