24 Cow Haiku Poem by O Anna Niemus

In Chino California
6500 cows
suffocated as they
sank into the mud

In North Dakota untold
numbers froze and
suffocated in
20 foot high snow drifts.

In southern Ohio
a cow slipped on mud.. her back legs
went both ways.. she was split up
the middle and left there over
several days to die

In a Washington slaughterhouse
a cow lay on the floor
her udder split in half.

In Maryland cows
are electroshocked away
from their babies.. stolen
to be butchered as veal

In Vermont cows have
infection encrusted udders
as they bleed from
milking machines

In Kentucky, a downed
cow was kicked repeatedly
and pulled off the truck
with ropes

In West Virginia, a truck
filled with cows was in
an accident.75 cows
spilled down the mountainside.

In Colorado, the
winter wind rips through
the slats at 81 mph
as the
slaughterhouse bound animals
huddle iin trucks speeding
through mountain passes.

In Texas, trains full
of cowssuffocating from
heat.. have downers
..4 d animals..
dead dying diseased
debilitated.

In Puerto Rico a boy
and the cows he was
driving through a flood
swollen river.. drowned


At New York's 'stock'
exchange they
hide the truth
of Mad Cow
to try to protect
the Mad Cow Dow

In Kansas untold
millions of cows have
frozen in blizzards

In Wisconsin, after
a lifetime of giving
a lifetime of slavery
exhausted old 'milk' cows
are sent to slaughter
for fast food chain hamburgs.

In Minnesota, 'dairy' cows
are given food (not feed..
a chauvinist term) with
animal products in it..
causing Mad Milk.

In Oklahoma cows'
ears are stapled with numbers

In Wyoming, bulls
are castrated

In Iowa the smoke
from the branding irons
of cows rises to God
and asks for mercy

In the land around
Yakima Washington
.. lived a 4 year old
little girl.. what
was the name of this
little 'mad cow'?

What have been the names
of the billions of cows
who have gone to their deaths
terrified in Illinois?

In Pennsylvania pharmaceutical
labs calves were slashed..
and smallpox sprayed
on their gashes

in a few weeks the gashers
come back
and plane off the scab.. and grind it into powder..
powder which contained BLV or bovine leukemia virus
.. the same disease as HTLV except in a different species

In Calgary, little calves
are slammed to the ground
their necks and legs breaking
in a rodeo called the Calgary
Stampede


In every state in the union
cows are electroshocked,
are bleeding, are kicked,
are pulled off trucks
are pulled from their babies

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(for The Downed Cow do search on internet)