1. A Change is in the Wind
(A Climate Change Poem)
by Neil Dufty

2. It is reported that ruminants, including cows, are
directly responsible for 6.3% of anthropogenic
global warming. Here’s their response using some
ideas from the Dana Lyons’s song ‘Cows with Guns’

3. A Change is in the Wind
Belch!
They’re watching us, these things called humans
Pens out, monitoring our rumens
Cows no fun
Pointing their fingers, shuffling their sheets
Murmuring about the planet’s heat
Cows help sun
Worried faces, showing their petulance
About our burps and our flatulence
Cows need bung
Uttering words, most common ‘methane’
Hoping cows would kindly refrain
Cow’s bad bum

4. A Change is in the Wind
(cont’d)
With a gut like a still, our only torment
Grass sloshes around, slow ferment
Cow’s big drum
Big cows with balls are the worst offenders
Blame males, that’ll help defend us
Cows well hung
They think it’s best to fit us with gas masks
Give us new grass to stop the farts
Cow’s new tum
They’ll want us to dispose of our very own cow pats
Placing them into underground vats
Cows no dung

5. A Change is in the Wind
(cont’d)
See they carve us up or milk us bone dry
Now they say we make all things fry
Cows hard done
And we’re so over all their bovine jokes
Go away, pick on some ‘udder’ folk
Cow bad pun
And don’t they belch things out, that’s a fact
What’s spewing from that factory stack?
Cows not dumb
See all we want to do is chew our cud
Moo, poo, trudge though the mud
Cows hum drum

6. A Change is in the Wind
(cont’d)
So it’s over, all of this crap is enough
We’re taking a stand, getting so tough
Cows done fun
Let’s fight for ruminant freedom
Run with the buffalo, the sheep
Let’s herd together, fight to the end
Cows are one
Let’s stampede the Golden Arches
Go on long protest marches
Fight on beaches and on pastures
Even take to air in the fastest
Cow Top Gun

7. A Change is in the Wind
(cont’d)
And now the end is very near
The day that all of us cattle fear
The last to the abattoir is to be tanned
Our fight was called ‘Muster’s Last Stand’
Cows out gunned
So if this story shocks, scares and amazes
That we Daisies could be ‘pushing up daisies’
Next time you question our windy emissions
Consider the risk of milk and meat omissions
Cow’s life done
© Neil Dufty

8. For more of Neil
Dufty’s poems
http://neilduftyfiction.com/
http://www.amazon.com/N
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