MERCY, CRIED THE MUSHROOM TO THE VEGAN LEADING IT TO ITS DOOM

Oh have mercy
Mercy on these
Pigs, and cows
And sheep

Oh have mercy
On these we slaughter,
Quarter fillet and devour

Oh have mercy
On the fish we filch
From watery paradise,

Oh have mercy
On the fowl
And feathery beasts
That we serve
At our feasts.

Oh let us garnish
Our plates with
Acceptable treats
Of vegetable
Provenience,
Like peas and beets
And spinach and things
That wont tarnish
Our little souls
With murderous
Dreams of...

FILLET MIGNON
(Sweet meat
Sauteed
In salty butter
just covered
in Pepper sauce
made with cream;
an absolute dream
of animal protein)

Go on,
Go ahead,
Have a scream!
I'm a carnivore
It's vegetables
I adore.

Imagine as I do
Lives of sentience
In slow flesh
Prescience in green
Delicate tendrils
Soaking in a dream
Of star fire
Free-falling shower
from the distant sun.

Tell me,
What vegetable thoughts
Might run in slow sap
Centuries of histories
Of fluttering leaves
Aching with desire,
Sun and sweet wind.

Do you cry
When a green-bean dies
That you might deny
You kill to eat?

Tell me do you only feed on death,
Without regret or think it a sin
When what you eat has breath?

All we eat has life
All that has life eats life
Fire feeds fire
Yet only we desire
To deny, only we aspire
To the pious lie

"To live
I take no life."

MC