Cow Logic

Cow Logic

 

They are dumb,

I think.

All those years behind

gates and stalls,

Eating silage.

Getting milked.

Females

listening to the voices

of feeders and milkers,

recovering phrases

the way mothers

overhear conversations

that rise for the backseat of the car.

What do cows do? my son asks.

The live out there in the green fields.

All they have to do is eat grass

and moo all day

and take care of their babies,

I say.

And maybe that's all

kids in backseats

need to know

about what we do-

we make milk

we have babies

we stand up a lot

we give ice cream

and look at the big sky

all day.

 

January Gill O'neil

 

From the book "Underlife" CavanKerry Press LTD.

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