June 23, 2010...10:32 pm

Love and Slaughter

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Sheep are by a goat while
cattle are like swine, prodded, yet
cattle go by hammer while
swine are by the hind leg hung
then swung about to spigot.
Quicker, infinitely cleaner, is
the hacksaw of sweet Susan’s laughter.

© 2010 Donal Mahoney

first appeared in
The Miscellany: A Davidson Review
Vol. 7 No. 1 Winter 1972

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