Cows with Guns

perhaps there is a message here ... if so, you're on your own ... i saw a .sig line on DU recently that read:
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers - Abbie Hoffman

Cows with Guns
by Dana Lyons

Fat and docile, big and dumb
They look so stupid, they aren't much fun
Cows aren't fun

They eat to grow, grow to die
Die to be et at the hamburger fry
Cows well done

Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
No one imagined the great cow guru
Cows are one

He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary veal
Cow Tse Tongue

He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd
Cow doldrums

He mooed we must fight, escape or we'll die
Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
Bad cow pun

But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
Cows are bummed

He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
No one suspected he was packing an Uzi
Cows with guns

They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
Cow well hung

Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
Run cows run!

He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay
We are free roving bovines, we run free today

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

They crashed the gate in a great stampede
Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
Cows have fun

Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
Much cow dung

Black smoke rising, darkening the day
Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

The President said "enough is enough
These uppity cattle, its time to get tough"
Cow dung flung

The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
Cows on buns

The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
They mooed their last moos,
they chewed their last hay
Cows out gunned

The order was given to turn cows to whoppers
Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
But on the horizon surrounding the shoppers

Came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

There must be something wrong with me, because it very nearly makes sense. It's almost like a Lewis Carroll poem; nonsense that's right on the edge of profundity. I love it!

I LOVE IT!!!!! It's A Classic!!!

It's mystical in a Zen Buddhist kind of way. ;-)

I recommend them both. Highly.

Worth the download wait, BUT the animator made a slight mistake - he is a she with udders.

THE ART OF POETRY
For Vicente Aleixandre

A longing for the sun on flat roofs,
on the gray, pigeon-colored wall of stone
--yet it stands out so clear-- and the sudden rush
of cold that comes almost with a shock.

The sweetness, the warmth of lips alone
in the middle of the street, familiar
as a big hall filling with strange people,
come together like our loved ones.

Above everything, time's endlessness,
the deep fissures that opens towards the soul,
while promises drift overhead
and break like surf against the shore.

Isn't it time we started thinking
that just being alive demands something
of us, big things maybe, or perhaps
some simple thing would be enough,

something with an earthy crust
that fingers can shape, with a little faith?
Words, for one thing,
Household words well worn with warmth.

Jaime Gil de Biedma


i'll post one in the Lounge. See you there.

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