Sunday, January 29, 2017

SEPAL- Sensitivity to Environment, Plant and Animal Life


I just started this page on facebook. It's called SEPAL- Sensitivity to Environment, Plant and Animal Life. Please do join and spread the word on different fora among likeminded people.

Click here on the link to go to the page.

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Poems in Wrong Review, and 'New Mc Donald's Has A Factory'

I have three new poems out in the Wrong Review which can be accessed here.

I am also pasting below the poem published on the Indian Cultural Forum last month, 'New Mc Donald's Has A Factory'

New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
And on his farm, he has some beef
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
With no space to move here, and no space to move there
Here a cut tail, there a hurt calf
Everywhere a blood bath
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh. 

New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
And in his factory, he has some pork
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
With a pork pork here, and a bac-on there
Here and there, production lines
Everywhere hanging — you pigs dying
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh 

New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
And in his factory, he has some duck meat
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
With a swollen duck here, and a bursting duck there
Here a cut beak, there a cut beak
Everywhere swollen birds with clipped, clipped beaks
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh

And in his factory, he has a horse
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
Tied and chained here, tied and chained there
Frothing at the mouth, here, there
Everywhere— leather, leather
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh 

New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
And in his factory, he has some lambs
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
With a tail cut here, and a skin peeled there
Here a fleece, there a fleece
Everywhere— wires, fences
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh 

New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
And in his factory, he has some chickens
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh
With cut beaks here, and cut beaks there
Here a caged bird, there a caged bird
Everywhere dead and dying birds
New MacDonald’s has a factory
Ayi-ayi-ayi-ayi-oh.