O Anna Niemus Poems

A 300 pound man
walked along the beach,
his deeper footprints
catching more tidewater
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Is it men or women who work the
most in slaughterhouses?
Is it men or women who are
most involved in domestic battering?
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Prolife means no babybombing in Iraq or elsewhere.
Prolife means not to eat animals' murdered corpses called meat.
Prolife means not supporting state murder.. called execution.
Prolife means not killing insects.
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Every egg stolen from a kidnapped factory farmed chicken
is 32 hours she spent in jail, crammed in often with 8 other
inmates, her claws sometimes growing around the wire mesh
like roots around a rock..immobilizing her. If she is force molted
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After the rain
with grace drip
bamboo fronds
as does the pen
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A joyful harvest of the fruit God has knitted..
the huge humble saffron pumpkins not designed for
a tree's holding, the crimson tomatoes,
blackberries, scarlet strawberries, the bright
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Cindy Sheehan,
Don Quixote,
tilting at the windmill
of Nancy Pelosi
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By the slaughterhouse, full of the screams of
terror, the blood, urination from terror,
defecation from agony, grease, mud
and slime
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