Day 2:
that one’ll make a lovely black and white
leather purse, I thought
of the bull grazing inches from my
bedroom window at midnight
on the Funny Farm
when our neighbor’s cows got loose
then I felt guilty
for thinking such a thought
next morning, my husband
called Wayne
turns out
another bull had gotten
into Wayne’s pasture
and their fighting
brought down the whole backside
of the fence bordering our farms
his entire herd was wandering
in the morning, cow poop
was everywhere
it’s just fertilizer
my husband reasoned
pointing to a
rounded one
the size of a dinner plate
that one’ll make a perfect
cow patty
Here are the two bulls ~ there were 8-10 cows in our front yard that night!
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