Welcome to my blog Upstate Girl, (a.k.a Follow Your Bliss Part II), I am an independently published author. This blog is all about writing and the stuff that inspires me to write, the joys and obstacles that come along with the writer's life, and my fascination with the psychology of people and what makes them tick...the human condition, as is...and my love for words, playing with them and making sense of them...and I throw in a few photos from my acre of the world just to make things pretty...sometimes there are things I have no words for, only pictures will do.

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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Sacred Cows






I opened the barn door to the sacred cows,
set open the gates,
and let them out to pasture.
Sweet, placid, not a care in the world—
“Behold—it is just a cow.”
Yes, a cow—chewing cud.
Pissing, shitting, eating, sleeping.
Swishing away flies. Large liquid brown eyes.
We milk them. And milk them. And milk them.
A cow is just a cow. Is a cow.
Cow doesn’t care about you.
Cow doesn’t care about rituals.
Cow doesn’t give a crap about religion.
Cow doesn’t give a fuck about politics.
Cow doesn’t give a shit
A cow is just a cow. Is a cow.
Now that they’re all out
I shut the barn door.

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