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Day Four
XI. THE GOAT ABATTOIR
7. Kids Later To Be Fattened Up
Kids later to be fattened up on the desert scrub
& sent to slaughter,
were hanging around the adults goats going in.
Many of them, remained near the holding pens.
Maaarring & maaarring.
The mother & father of this one & that one
gone long ago.
No time to connect to any new parents.
No time to drink milk from the fear
of the process.
The adult goats going in
never offered them a teat.
Just saliva & stamping, before they were sent up.
The rolling of eyes & a backwards shove.
Some kids began to run aimlessly, around the outside
maarrring & maarrring.
Their parents long gone.
A few were bleeding from the backsides.
Others were stringy & starving.
One's little horn was broken in half. |
