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Whoever would fire a bullet? I ask as I’m surely confused Who on Earth would want to shatter All that beauty that Nature has fused! Who sits in a hide away from the light Waiting for the deer to call They don’t need the meat, that’s not the treat It’s the head and the points on the wall! Tribesmen in ‘less civilised’ countries Might hunt down just such a deer Then they pray for the soul of the slaughtered For life-saving food from a beast they revere! Not for them the revulsion of trophies They only **** what they need But in our ‘so civilised’ society We can **** just for pleasure or greed. There is something not right in society Where solutions come from a gun Weapons should be just for protection They should never be used for such ‘fun’. “Please do not be offended by my reference to a ‘less civilised’ society. I refer only to a lack of modernity and in actuality we are the far more crudely behaved frequently” Joe Wilson 2014 ©Joe Wilson – The slaughtered… 2014
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 7:56 AM UTC
The slaughtered...
Whoever would fire a bullet? I ask as I’m surely confused Who on Earth would want to shatter All that beauty that Nature has fused! Who sits in a hide away from the light Waiting for the deer to call They don’t need the meat, that’s not the treat It’s the head and the points on the wall! Tribesmen in ‘less civilised’ countries Might hunt down just such a deer Then they pray for the soul of the slaughtered For life-saving food from a beast they revere! Not for them the revulsion of trophies They only **** what they need But in our ‘so civilised’ society We can **** just for pleasure or greed. There is something not right in society Where solutions come from a gun Weapons should be just for protection They should never be used for such ‘fun’. “Please do not be offended by my reference to a ‘less civilised’ society. I refer only to a lack of modernity and in actuality we are the far more crudely behaved frequently” Joe Wilson 2014 ©Joe Wilson – The slaughtered… 2014
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 7:56 AM UTC
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