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CEOs and Hogs

You have to have regulations
in any industry, the hog farmer
told the slaughter house CEO
visiting his farm that day.
Otherwise raising hogs
or slaughtering them
would never work,
the farmer said.
 
Hogs are honest animals
he told the CEO, but they
must be fenced or they’ll
run wild and eat everything.
You can’t have hogs
rooting where they please.
 
You’re here today to see
how well we raise our hogs.
In a way you regulate us
as does the government.
Someone has to regulate
the slaughter houses too.
I’m sure you get inspections.
Otherwise, hogs would take over
but not the kind you get from us.
 
 
Donal Mahoney

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