Saturday, 28 May 2011

The last breath

I looked down and it lay between us gasping its last breaths.
You turned and beat it once more on the head with your club -
such words, such cruelty.
How could you not think it would die,
culled like a seal pup?
We dragged it home and propped it up in the corner. 
Now and again you try to give it resuscitation, 
but I know as you beat its chest that that it is dead. 
Can you not smell the stink of its decay?

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