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Do you remember how we went,
on duty bound, to feed the crowd
of hungry dogs your father kept
as rabbit-hunters? Lean and loud,
half starved and furious, how they leapt
against their chains, as though they meant
in mindless rage for being fed,
to tear our childish hands instead!
With tomahawk and knife we hacked
the flyblown tatters of old meat,
gagged at their carcass smell, and threw
the scraps and watched the hungry eat.
Then turning faint, we made a pact,
(two greensick girls), crossed hearts and swore
to touch no meat forever more.
How many cuts of choice and prime
our housewife hands have dressed since then--
these hands with love and blood imbrued--
for daughters, sons, and hungry men!
How many creatures bred for food
we've raised and fattened for the time
they met at last the steaming knife
that serves the feast of death-in-life!
And as the evening meal is served
we hear the turned-down radio
begin to tell the evening news
just as the family joint is carved.
O murder, famine, pious wars …
Our children shrink to see us so,
in sudden meditation, stand
with knife and fork in either hand.
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Judith Wright

Judith Wright

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