Dovina4 May 2006

At least he knocked them on the head. That's humane, compared to slitting their throats while they hang shaking scared by their hind feet. Maybe you had this in mind also - feeling pain just before the warm trickle; that would not be so if they are knocked out first.

You make too much of the container, I think. Does it matter what it's made of and lined with?

It used to bother me too. Good poem.