Are Farm Animals Like Humans? ……. [species Comparisons; Biology; Sort Of Short; Humor/Humour] Poem by Bri Edwards

Why sure they are like humans; for me there is no doubt, …….
BUT my not-too-big nose is 'far from' ….what pigs call their snout.
And as humans mature we move NOT on four limbs, but, instead, on TWO,
BUT bulls rise up on hind legs RARELY, to do what they ……'have to' DO.

(Speaking of cows) , like human females ….cows do suckle their young,
BUT humans have JUST two teats, while 'twice-that' ….from most cows are hung.
And a barnyard-duck rarely says more than ….'quack, quack, QUACK',
BUT an educated human, an impressive array of words does rarely lack.

Horses consume grass and other roughage ….out in the meadow,
BUT humans smoke THEIR 'grass' to get 'high' and to mellow.
And a chicken, I think, would rarely eat a man …..for its meal,
BUT humans flock to McDonalds where, on Chicken McNuggets, we'll get a good deal.

So you see, humans may be 'like' farm animals, but we sure ain't the same;
it's not JUST that humans and pigs [& cows, ducks, horses, & chickens] DON'T share ….. one name.

(July 20,2014)







Why sure they are like humans; for me there is no doubt, …….
BUT my not-too-big nose is 'far from' ….what pigs call their snout.
And as humans mature we move NOT on four limbs, but, instead, on TWO,
BUT bulls rise up on hind legs RARELY, to do what they ……'have to' DO.

(Speaking of cows) , like human females ….cows do suckle their young,
BUT humans have JUST two teats, while 'twice-that' ….from most cows are hung.
And a barnyard-duck rarely says more than ….'quack, quack, QUACK',
BUT an educated human, an impressive array of words does rarely lack.

Horses SWALLOW grass and other roughage ….out in the meadow,
BUT humans SMOKE their 'grass', to get 'high' and to mellow.
And a chicken, I think, would rarely eat A MAN …..for its meal,
BUT humans flock to McDonalds where, on Chicken McNuggets, we'll get a deal.

So you see, humans may be 'like' farm animals, but we sure ain't the same;
it's not JUST that humans and pigs [& cows, ducks, horses, & chickens] DON'T share ….. one name.

(July 20,2014)