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Apprentice Butchers Memoir ::Explicit::

(The Lamb)

My lungs empty, no longer inflate 
This timid mind, cannot feel hate 
I’m so confused 
don’t understand money 
grazing the fields
was my milk and honey 

Flails my skin, keeps everything tight 
Slices out my heart, this very night 
I’m terrified here 
without a clue 
Helpless and lost 
but what can I do 

Gathers me close, cuts into ribbons 
I’m already dead, that’s a given 
You bleed me out 
I cannot object 
My life is over 
onto the next 

(Me)

Am I evil
I am man
Am I evil
I’m a man
Am I evil 
They where only lambs
Am I evil 
Yes fu-ck it goddamn 
in hindsight I am

By
David Kavanagh

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Terry Flood Date: 1/22/2022 5:02:00 PM I’m a self confessed hypocrite. I would never harm an animal but I feel no guilt at eating meat. We have canines, they come from God or evolution, take your pick. Almost all higher animals eat lower animals, it’s how it is, we just don’t hunt them down. If carrots were bulging with Vitamins B12 and K we could live on them… and celery. Yum! Terry. P.S. I lied, I feel some guilt… but God made them taste SO good. Login to Reply David Kavanagh Date: 1/23/2022 4:19:00 AM He sure did make them taste good Terry, and when man harnessed fire they tasted even better, killing the creatures is not a pleasant experience but a necessary evil, so I keep telling myself, but no matter what way I look at it, the methods we used in the 80s where crude and cruel, and don’t let anyone tell you any different, cheers David

Tom Cunningham Date: 1/15/2022 2:33:00 PM We all enjoy our meat but give little thought as to how it ends up neatly packaged in cellophane on the supermarket shelves. After reading my lims Jenna's going vegan. If she reads this she'll be vegan for life lol. Tom Login to Reply David Kavanagh Date: 1/15/2022 3:02:00 PM Jenna probably did read this one, but I do understand why people choose not to comment, it’s bleak and blunt I think your Limericks probably sparked this one off lol, cheers David David Kavanagh Date: 1/15/2022 2:57:00 PM Really is enough to put some people off meat Tom, when 16 years old and you end up in an abattoir serving an apprenticeship you really ask yourself these questions about it being an evil occupation, it’s pretty brutal but if you last the first day or two, and not everyone does, you do get used to it, your comment is true, people forget or probably don’t want to know the reality of being a carnivore, I still eat meat by the way, just not mince lol, cheers David