Food Chain (with esprit d’escalier)

I like them so
you explain
how ravens pluck
out the eyes of
newborn lambs

Q.
oh [your German accent]
did you think life was a disneyfilm?

A.
I never forget the world
is a horror show

A.
for example
deer will eat a bird
alive if they find one
caught in a mist net
or nesting low

so much for delicate
step & soft eye

they need protein
lack a theory of mind

A.
smiling
a painted
pig offers
a bacon sandwich
from the side
of the bacon truck

I guess
we’re meant
to think, oh,
that’s okay then

bad news
about the pig:
that never happens