(Copyright ©1996 by Kristofer Dale, all rights reserved.)


                        Meatyocrity

 "Animals are our friends" is a popular decree
  Repeated to young minds trapped in the educational melee,
  And as with all such modern relationships
   formed by insidious presumption,
  Covertly prepared with all the trimmings requisite
   for the convenience of conspicuous consumption;
  Such carnal knowledge imparted to innocent minds
   with the noblest of intentions,
  Forms the basis for the further acceptance
   of countless social circumlocutions;
  Those Orwellian double-thinking adepts from fictional 1984,
  Pale beside the irrational intricacy of the contemporary pseudo-carnivore,
  Convinced from birth to death that life is merely here to take,
  And of course the sanction of supreme deity is the frosting on the cake

  The agendas hidden amongst the plates and platters
   of the average American family table,
  Rival those piled up in mounds about the
   National Security Administration stable,
  When denial is the basis of everything we do
  Corruption assails the feet within those highly polished shoes,
  And as the burden of ever-escalating 
   complexity sets the torso tottering,
  The mouth gasps desperately for breath enough
   to drive its compensatory mutterings;
  With arms thrashing wildly in the surrounding space
  The hands seek the solace of a firm and solid place
  To blindly hang on to through the torment of doubt
  As the mind longs to escape from within and without

  Such is the alarming state of
   the once noble body politic,
  When disease is paraded as robust health
   and healing people are viewed as sick;
  The whys and wherefores of this state of affairs
  Lie in the act of contemplating animals puzzled stares,
  For they feel it in the very sinews with which their bones enmesh
  Those naked monkey bastards are gleefully lusting after their flesh...

                            aszsa