Animal or Vegetable?

[ChristopherSea]

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Animal or Vegetable?

Some vegans vomit fiddleheads
fanatically brandishing
their tightly coiled lime green fists,
often sparring to uppercut
those masticating carnivores
of domestic fowl and beast.

I must confess, I do eat meat,
much like my fellow Hominids,
as our ancient ancestors did;
but I've no gun nor zeal to hunt;
don’t paint still life on butcher blocks.

I render our earth, both flora
and fauna, on cotton rag
paper in watercolor,
not upon calfskin vellum
with red-sable brushes.

Being human, affords us choice
in committing those acts that all
humans do. Some pointing fingers
have murdered as well, albeit
a human fetus or two.

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Animal or Vegetable?

Some vegans vomit fiddleheads
fanatically brandishing
tightly coiled lime fists;
often sparring to uppercut
masticating carnivores
of domestic fowl and beast.

I must confess, I do eat meat,
like my fellow Hominids,
as our ancient ancestors did,
but I have no gun nor zeal to hunt;
don’t paint still life on butcher blocks.

I render our earth, both flora
and fauna, on cotton rag
paper in watercolor,
not upon calfskin vellum
with red-sable brushes.

Being human, affords us choice
in committing those acts that all
humans do. Some pointing fingers
have murdered as well, albeit
a human fetus or two.

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Tectak edit 1

Animal or Vegetable?

Some vegans vomit fiddleheads
fanatically brandishing
their tightly coiled lime fists;
often sparring to uppercut
those masticating carnivores
of domestic fowl and beast.

I must confess, I do eat meat,
like my fellow Hominids,
as my ancient ancestors did.
I have no gun nor zeal to hunt;
don’t paint still life on butcher blocks.

I render our earth, both flora
and fauna, on cotton rag
paper in watercolor,
not upon calfskin vellum
nor with red-sable brushes.

Being human affords us choice
in committing those actions
that all humans do.
Some pointing fingers
have murdered as well,
albeit a human fetus or two.


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original

Animal or Vegetable?

Some vegans vomit fiddleheads
emphatically brandishing
their coiled lime fists;
often sparring to uppercut
those masticating ominvores
of domestic fowl
and beast.

I must confess, I do eat meat,
like my fellow Hominids,
as my ancient ancestors did.
I've no gun or zeal to hunt;
I don’t paint still life
on butcher blocks.
I render our earth, both flora and fauna,
on cotton rag in watercolor,
not calfskin vellum
with sable brushes.

Being human
affords us choice
in committing those acts
that humans do.
Some pointing fingers
have murdered still,
albeit a human fetus
or two.