Recently, an article in the NY Times caught my eye. Apparently, a cow had escaped from a slaughterhouse in the borough of Queens and was racing through the streets causing quite a stir. It was finally cornered and captured in a parking lot by NYPD blue and returned to the Halal style slaughterhouse to again meet with its final demise. However, the cow's grand adventure and play for freedom, my interpretation not the cow's, was captured on video, which was quickly uploaded to social media sites which immediately caught the attention of the NY Times and an enraptured population, those of PETA leanings at least, and a facebook call for its freedom was initiated by a local animal sanctuary, who immediately dispatched a negotiator to rescue it from the clutches of the slaughterhouse. Apparently a Halal style slaughterhouse doesn't employ stunning devices to numb the wary animals prior to the kill, following the playbook of Islamic law, which may be why the cow made a run for it. As the calls for the cow's freedom increased and before he was given martyr status by a population of mainly meat eaters, the slaughterhouse relented and gave this special cow that ignited our collective imagination, to the sanctuary representative who immediately named him, Freddie Mercury. He now lives at the sanctuary with 18 other saved bovine souls and myriad other rescued animals that will never again experience the horror of facing the kill box.
Slaughterhouse Rhapsody
Freddie Mercury might be
The bovine
Resurrection of
Queen’s lead singer
His wailings certainly heart felt
As he slipped away from the knife,
Long, nick-free, sharp enough to
Swiftly sever the windpipe
Single swipe
Halal style, Permissible
According to scripture
Not followed by Freddie
He passed their pleas
Running Queens
Let him go, let him free
Bismillah
Bismillah
“Spare him his life
From this monstrosity.”
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