SlaughterHouse Dreams

It's a poem. With rhymes and s**t.

Got a job in a slaughterhouse
on top of grinding gears
Strapping pigs to electric chairs
for bovine profiteers

Wrap hooves with conductor wire
Then throw the killing switch
I work for piss and vinegar
Make profits for the rich

Exploit the lands of Africa
Cow them with the lash
Our founding fathers ambitions
A slave holder's panache

Running guns across the desert
Rape the land for spoils
Waging war for profit margins
The price of diamond oil

Exploiting fears of terrorism
So hate can germinate
Turn the land of milk and honey
Into a fascist state

Ride the backs of common people
Until we're broken down
Profiteers eat all our children
while we all slowly drowned

Working in this slaughterhouse
listening to the screams
Watching entrails on the walls
turn into payday dreams

Stick electrodes into piggy
one last screaming squeal
Hit the switch electric twitch
then hang it on the wheel

Author's Note

Yes I know bovine is cattle.

Reviews

[Dr. Wood ?]

well Baby...one of your finest, I'd say.....Machine gun poetry with an explosive delivery AND message..Bloody brilliant!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you doc

[Raya]

First, this is Rhea752, had to get a different account

Secondly, ow. My brain has been scarred. The imagery was vivid and the message couldn't be any clearer. I absolutely love this poem. Keep up the great writing :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Raya

[ANTO]

Im sorry I didnt get to this earlier BR. Its a brilliant commentary on the way the world is and how its is going to stay the way it is unless people wake up - thankfully we have poets like you to wake us from our stupor

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you ANTO

[TL Boehm]

for all your smartassery - you usually have a much deeper - serious edge to your work - as it is with this one. You make a strong point about the human condition. And then you punch the reader in the nuggets just to make sure we got it. Bravo!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you TL

[ANTO]

smartassery .....? How did you sneak that one past spell checker TL ...lol

[dw817]

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There are electric chairs for pigs ? Why would they do that ? Pigs are basically very intelligent animals and don't do us any harm. Isn't it enough we make food out of them today without adding to that, torture ?

[Baby Ricochet]

I know. It's crazy

[dw817]

Well, did you do this yourself personally ? Didn't you ask them why it was being done ? :/

[Baby Ricochet]

It's a metaphor.

[dw817]

Ohh ... Man, I was literally reading into this - wracking my brain trying to figure out why people wanted to electrocute pigs ? So - you are saying then you worked for the police where they used the electric chair for convicts ?

[Baby Ricochet]

Yes

[dw817]

OMan, how could you even do that ? Wow ... OK, that's too much for me ! I know there are criminals and they're bad people and all but even I certainly couldn't pull the switch for stuff like that. :o

[Baby Ricochet]

They had good insurance.

[dw817]

Insurance ? You mean death insurance right ? Their relatives would receive - ok - I can't talk about this. That's just gruesome. :6

[Baby Ricochet]

Of course . I get free medical, dental and psych from the VA

[Aristede Craig Jr]

O my.... All I will say is all I will say and o my...

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you for reading

[Keith]

Great write, how do you churn em out so quick?

[Baby Ricochet]

I keep writing. Thank you Keith

[Cody Williams]

Shocking! A great poem! Thanks for sharing it!

-CW

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Cody

[NA]

As morbid as this is I had to read on...gruesome imagery..but I enjoyed the shock factor :) x

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Raven

[C. Monique Langston]

Nice! This exploits the class system, capitalism, and morality. I truly enjoy this poem.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Monique