The headline reads,
“The Internet
Is Freaking Out
About A Dead Cow
In A Supermarket”
And, to be fair,
the cow’s entrance
to the meat aisle
was astonishingly
unique
For the simple reason
that he,
unlike the endless
procession of others,
entered alive
He wasn’t meant to
walk into the store
on his own,
the plans for his death
were well under way
Like so many beside him,
and countless before him,
he was packed tightly
into a truck
An involuntary passenger
with a one-way ticket
to a dismal destination:
the house of slaughter
But an overturned truck
offered the chance of escape
and off he ran
as fast as his hooves
would allow
Until the strange,
open doors
beckoned him
A respite, perhaps,
from the horror
both behind and ahead
But his supposed sanctuary
was already filled
with the bodies
of his bovine brethren,
dismantled and displayed
in coolers kept frozen
to impede their decay
A sudden bullet
sent his body to the ground,
falling lifeless
like the packaged remains
surrounding him
The customers,
it seems,
were upset that they
had so vividly
witnessed the pools
of blood seeping
from the broken remnants
of someone who,
only moments ago,
was standing
on his own four legs
They preferred
not to think
of their burgers
as dead
13 Feb 2019
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