I’d like to buy a pet lizard
but I’d have to feed him live food
like chirping crickets
I just can’t do it
I can’t feed those innocent
little insects to a lizard
I can’t bear the thought of
little, chirping crickets being raised
just to die horrifyingly in a lizard’s belly
Yet, with some sobering reflection,
I see that I’m kind of a hypocrite
who eats chicken everyday
That are only raised
to die horrifyingly and
end up in my belly
Bob Boyd