Pityful Cows

they argued until all the cows came home or maybe for the flies on the wall to rest disperse and achieve what they do best with detritus and compost of time pets are embraced by definition and its perspectives discussions were belligerent and character forming hard as Krupp steel and tough as seasoned leather un-winnable because polar opposites lie far apart accusations heartache and impossible agreement it was the seventies and his father had survived the war defeat surrender and bullets shot and received followed orders and executed them with precision closed up from self-inspection to save his own sanity the son shaped by the student revolution’s ideals was encouraged in school to question everything to critique criticize challenge and to never accept what wrongful authorities suggested by decree milk curdled in one of the cattle’s fours stomachs tasted bitter never lived up to the promise of peace the insects wished to have been stealthy mosquitos to inject their own sting into the skinful of attacks the old man is long dead and worms had their feast a wooden coffin only protects for a vey short while the son looks back in awe fault and forgiveness and hopes that the cows in heaven graze happily 14th August 2020