{"id":8894,"date":"2025-12-12T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8894"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:17:49","slug":"poem-the-meat-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/poem-the-meat-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: The Meat Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is on the topic of veganism. the practice of not eating animal products. This poem and its title centers on what I find as a weird divergence among many serious animal lovers (read pet lovers) who don&#8217;t give a second thought to killing animals for food.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Meat Cute<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who is too quest in<br \/>\nThe reigning of kittens and puppies<br \/>\nAnd chicks for a wile<br \/>\nWhen we meat<br \/>\nThat inexpressible attitude<br \/>\nOf what\u2019s eating you<br \/>\nAnd you eating what<br \/>\nAs if<br \/>\nPet virtues<br \/>\nSum diminutive morality<br \/>\nBlind too obvious<br \/>\nAwwwwwe<br \/>\nCan you see it<br \/>\nIn the I\u2019s of those be helled<br \/>\nButt what does that have too due<br \/>\nWith the prize of beef<br \/>\nGetting ugly<br \/>\nBringing homme the bacon<br \/>\nSum agreeable pork<br \/>\nAs ahead less chauvinism<br \/>\nIn the mettle of specious<br \/>\nAnd spur us to be sporting<br \/>\nAs we are<br \/>\nWhat<br \/>\nWe eat<br \/>\nDinning on<br \/>\nRe-hearsing eternally<br \/>\nUp on deaf ears<br \/>\nUntil we are horse<br \/>\nOr wear ever<br \/>\nWe draw the lyin\u2019<br \/>\nLeather effaced<br \/>\nAnte-cute egging on<br \/>\nOr cheesily milking moms<br \/>\nFor all its worth<br \/>\nAmor bid tell<br \/>\nThe deference<br \/>\nA mist sentient and sentiment<br \/>\nThe strange fruit<br \/>\nOf a romance of meat<br \/>\nCute<br \/>\nSlavish devotion<br \/>\nOr dis tasteful<br \/>\nWith respect of looks<br \/>\nOr not<br \/>\nAnd who or what remains<br \/>\nCannibalizing a slew of gods<br \/>\nIn image maid<br \/>\nEven in a vile<br \/>\nPerhaps monstrously good<br \/>\nAnd still<br \/>\nIn the end<br \/>\nWe peer<br \/>\nAs whatever<br \/>\nThou dust<br \/>\nAs time a bridge<br \/>\nIn what will be<br \/>\nMomentary freshness<br \/>\nGetting into<br \/>\nSum eerie realty<br \/>\nAs awe tastes like chicken<br \/>\nAnd what madders<br \/>\nTo awe<br \/>\nIs out of sight<br \/>\nAnd out of mine<br \/>\nThat endless love a fair<br \/>\nAnd bizaar<br \/>\nWhich may vary well<br \/>\nBegin and end<br \/>\nWith a meat cute<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: A meet cute is a scene in romantic fiction in which two people meet for the first time, typically under unusual, humorous, or adorable circumstances, and go on to form a future romantic couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem is on the topic of veganism. the practice of not eating animal products. 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