Fur for the Killing
Animal Rights Poetry By Lynne Goldsmith From All-Creatures.org
Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet
with us and the people who fight for them.
Fur for the Killing
By Lynne Goldsmith
Hard to imagine
over one hundred million animals
(not counting one billion rabbits) annually—
dogs cats minks foxes opossums,
raccoons bobcats skunks bears otters
coyotes beavers muskrats martens
chinchillas lynxes seals
the list of killings—
on and on they go
from cage to trap
to stomp
the animals
break-
ing of neck
trap-
ping of legs
bleed-
ing for
bludgeoned
paralyzed
sometimes conscious
skinned alive
or hanged
the starvation
steel-jaw underwater
conibear snare
left for drowning
to electrocute
in anus or on labia
metal rod shoved
down the throat
bleeding out
to this is what
this is how
we humans do.
This is what we love.
This is how we show—
off our warmth.
©Lynne Goldsmith, 2020
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