Poem & photo by Matthew Christopher Murray: kinder to be euthanized: kinder than the shoving of the forklift and the brutal crunch of shearing bone. kinder than the winch and chains hauling, lifting hundreds of pounds by limbs already broken. kinder than being dumped down the cripple chute, then left in an alley with every other infirm, battered beast. kinder, the bolt gun, than each and every averted eye, than the realization none will help, than trying to communicate your misery to mud and dirt. kinder than the infections in the wounds, the fever, the delirium, the unquenched thirst, the growing weakness, the sounds of slaughter, kinder than laying in your own filth, than ants crawling and biting, inhabiting your insides, and kinder than the black hordes of hungry flies - kinder to be euthanized.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:49:02 +0000