DIGRESSES WITH REMINISCES

the orator
drops his paper
reading some prayer about shepherds

& he digresses
with reminisces
about his own sheep farming days

there is no conviction
in his blunt diction
when he says

sheep are stupid
they turn their toes up
at any old thing

at the funeral
we were at
last thursday noon

COLLECTIVE MURDER

  its 
  collective murder out here

said    
the        
film       to
maker      his
           muse

meaning for him
  the 
  jungle
  was 
  never 
  erotic

  its 
  collective murder everywhere

i
said       in
           a
           different
           century

meaning
  mini-beast brutality 
  under 
  soft british grass
  
  industrial farming

  the madness of roads
  
  and
  governments
  willing
  folly

from prisonbooks.info by paul lachine