Every time I try to shoot an animal

Something stops me and I cannot fire

Feelings of remorse begin to simmer

Although I know that I must feed my family

I can’t look a roast meal in the eye

I always seem to throw the gun away.

Sometimes hunters travel very far away

Searching for some very special animal

Stalking them on foot then eye to eye

In their heart a burning, like a fire

Forces them to leave their home and family

Search for trophies so the flame may simmer.

“Turn the heat down as it starts to simmer

Do not leave it there to boil away

Casserole will feed a hungry family

You can use most any kind of animal

Throw it in the pot then on the fire

Careful lest a spark flies in your eye.”

Often tears come welling in my eye

Reading recipes appetite starts to simmer

Put my lentil soup upon the fire

Hunger never seems to stay away

Vegans think of me as such an animal

Cos I don’t rate eggs in the chicken family.

Though I try and cater for my family

The kids and I are never eye to eye

How could kids of mine dare eat an animal?

Temper tantrums always on the simmer

Fairly soon I guess they’ll move away

I know that look – a big mac burger fire!

They love roast chicken since the chookhouse fire

They saw our parrot in the same family

He disappeared one day I was away

A look of satisfaction in their eye

Culinary lust begins to simmer

Why should I be treated like an animal.

Adding birds eye chilies raises fire

Takes the tofu taste away for family

Animal glances – cannibalism simmering?

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