HUMAN VULTURE

  Carcass dead --- decayed and old ---

  Is now considered food.

  Nutritionists ignore the fact

  That food affects our mood.

  The subtle side of life, they think,

  Does not apply to men.

  From tree of life they pluck the fruit

  And quite ignore the stem.

  One day the tree grows old and dies

  And then they have to think.

  but then no matter how one tries,

  The pen is out of ink.

  The law is such that what we eat

  Affects the mind and soul.

  The death we eat by having killed

  Will put us in The Hole,

  Where mind is dim and cannot think,

  Where life becomes effete.

  The cesspool has its special stink

  And Hell its special heat.

  A simple act on us rebounds

  With fury of its own.

  Escape lies not within our hands

  Unless we eat what's grown.

  Like vegetables and fruits and nuts ---

  These foods are meant for man.

  May lower creatures die in peace,

  Not hang in butcher's van!

  from:  Meat is Good, Dead Carcass etc.

                                    by Tom Curtis