15 Minute Swine

Today on 15MinutePoet.com we talk with a sow living on a factory farm. That's a female pig for you city slickers.

Words From A Female Sow
By Jo A. True-Burkholder

Seweeeee I was born a female sow,
a lifetime spanning merely 3-4 years.
My factory farm life conditions now,
could bring many a human to tears.

Living in miniscule gestation crates,
with no area to turn around or lay.
Standing room only is my fate,
until I’m slain on slaughter day.

I can deliver you up to eight litters,
quickly growing wide as my enclosure.
Still considered one of God’s creatures,
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