Eve seeing apple as hen A rooster going around the bend God giveth as we spend Rafters and ravens Hosts and tax havens Word are tangential to talk Got a problem, take a walk Rakes the cure for Notre Dame Cow imagines so much fame Digging up the dead, father too Moved from the Bronx, another zoo To just inside the Berlin Wall Cow still fears the windmill call Bringing cancer to lobes and nodes Brain off the back on shoddy roads Thoughts and prayers don’t make the day Cow sees rough marks left in clay He seeks the word, the final truth The orange of Dr. Ruth But no doctor’s in the barn Cow will live in another yarn Language leaching from an old oak tree Where the roots are mangled, subject free To wander where the gods don’t go A Barnum & Bailey, all tent show Hair on fire, mind ablaze Cow knows his way through the haze House of mirrors, house of shame For Cow it’s really all the same.

Mad Cow is all onions and ass Blessed with animal class His breath tells the tale Never sorry, never fail Dishes are wasted out in the sun Oranges have captured all of the fun A grove lost in a salad of words Remnants hardly fit for the birds Origins from Adam and Eve Begin a crazy, syntactical weave The world, the dawn, then the leave Alphabet soup all over again Adam in his wayward den