poem of the day 03.01.13

horse meat

there is all of this business lately

about horse meat

horse meat in the burgers

horse meat in the lasagna

and horse meat in the swedish meatballs

the good fat citizens of the world are complaining

about the horse meat

the news reporters are doing their job

getting to this bottom of this

and giving us the truth with a smile

before the evening game shows come on the tv

and the good fat corporations of the world

have been found out

they are pulling products

faster than a high school boy

getting off on prom night

but one wonders what’s the point?

what does it matter what you eat

once the animal has been stunned and decapitated

slaughtered and placed on the rack

its blood and fecal matter

slathering into a puddle on a cold factory floor

is it really of consequence

when you’ve got that hunger for flesh and sinew?

so everyone just calm down

let the corporations give us what we want

all the salt and fat that we can handle

let’s not stop the meat grinder of commerce over a trifle

let’s just close our eyes

open wide

and keep shoving it down

clogging the arteritis like good little consumers

because whether it be

horse

or pig

or cow

or dog

or cat

armadillo

ostrich and frog

or a brand newborn human baby boy

none of it really matters

and most of it just tastes like chicken anyway.