From All-Creatures.org

Poetry By Carl Porten

Wait! Stop!
Do y’not understand!
...I don’t want that sperm
you’ve got clenched in your hand!

Your just addin’ more memories
to others you’ve filed,
‘cause I know when I give birth
you’ll steal my child.

I remember last time,
it left nightmares behind,
I was taken an’ caged
an’ your hands showed no kind.

Man? I’m not sure,
an’ kind, there’s no way,
the Gods really fucked up
givin names out that day,

‘cause you kick me an’ punch me
an’ whack me with brooms,
to force me in stalls
where I can’t fuckin’ move,

an’ I cringe when your hands
brush up against me,
but I’m trapped in these bars
where I can’t run away,

an’ those fuckin’ things hurt,
still what humans don’t see,
are the ghosts that replace
your machines milkin’ me.

Bringin’ back nightmares
where two or three more,
humans attack me
an’ force me though doors-

-an’ I screamed,
...but nobody heard,
now I’m pregnant again
to fulfill my life’s worth,

bringin’ nightmares again,
where storks fly on by
droppin’ babies to mothers
I wait with a smile.

But the stork then turns dragon
who tosses my child,
an’ left tumblin’ free fallin’
looks at me an’ smiles.

His mouth’s spillin’ drops
that dance on his lips,
as his teeth start to show
an’ he shifts to my kid,

an’ with one mighty roar!
I heard just before,
he closed his mouth tight
with my baby inside

It’s a horrible dream,
but then here in my life,
it’s just day after day
in a place I survive.

Well it was anyway
‘till y’drove me away,
on the back of a truck
through the wind an’ the rain.

Seemed like days,
cramped in a cage,
so tight we can’t move
an’ scared fear can’t explain.

I spy through a gap
in the trailer I’m in,
when the back doors flung open
an’ panic begins,

filthy monsters stood there.
I look there’s nowhere,
t’run off an’ hide
as a stench fills the air~

~an’ fears all I smell
as you shoo shoo shoo shoo!
We don’t know where we’re going
or what they’re gonna do.

There’s a bang as they lower
an’ smash t’the ground,
a great ramp that they force us
an’ make us go down.

Pushed through large doors
to a cramped stenchy room,
with cold concrete walls
an’ more gates to go through.

Past the next fuckin’ gate though,
what my eyes did see,
was far more than the nightmares
that I used to dream.

The passage got narrow,
took me by surprise,
when they pointed their gun
at my head, what a sight.

An’ bang!.....
My weight took a knee,
as he took aim once more
an’ put me to sleep.

Their draggin’ me,
I see when I wake,
an’ my hearts left explodin’
with sights my eyes take

as rows of my brothers
all hung by their feet
upside down thrashin’ ‘round
an’ some that aren’t breathin’.

That’ll happen to me!
I don’t want to die,
they’re all covered in blood
an’ the screams an’ their cry’s!

Like forks slowly driftin’
‘cross warm china plates,
cringin’ your body
‘till fear makes you shake.

Hangin’ here hopeless,
I know ‘cause I tried.
I kicked an’ I kicked
but death took me that tonight.

The shower of blood
as the knife passed my head
flashed my life in my eyes
now all smothered in red.

Warm blood on my face,
I slowly drown,
an’ to count my last breath
heaven sent angels down.

Who stayed ‘till the end
an’ watched as I died,
from that last fuckin’ slice
that y’made with your knife,

think about this
when you eat your next steak,
or drink my sons milk,
‘bout the lives that it takes.

An’ pain that it causes
t’wake every day,
in nightmares you kill us,
in life it’s the same.

Dear monster one day
I hope you find love,
so that Jekyll an’ Hyde
can finally break up,

an’ you’ll stop takin’ lives
from souls left shattered,
...an’ open your heart,
t’find “all lives do matter...”