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My Flesh Was Also Raised on the Farm
An excerpt from a poem by MePoet

II.

The dead ones go out in the gutter with the shit.
They are no more substantial stacked in a shovel.
New mother sows flop like mistakes that never look down.
The quick ones are fed.
The slow ones are dead.
And I understand "acceptable loss"
Long before I hear the term.
Pigs give birth to a litter.
Litter is a numbers game.
Litter is a crap shoot in the gutter.
Litter is what is not useful the next day.

This entire poem appears in the Poetry Journal PGI #5


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