# Open Season

Author: Auctor
Tags: Avian, Death, Deer, Gun, Hunt, Hunting, Poem, Poetry, Predator/Prey, Prey, carnivore, goose, meat

I hereby declare, this very day,  
an open season, on all the prey.  
On geese, and ducks, and mainly deer  
so human kind has naught to fear  
from overpopulated creatures  
breaking the cars upon their features  
destroying gardens, lawns, and trees.  
Disguising coats shift in the breeze  
They stand, so tempting for us to hunt,  
for their own good, we shoot the runt.  
In theory only, but a hunter wants  
a healthy body, theirs to flaunt.  
For their own good, there are too many  
they'll just die if we don't kill any  
of disease and shortages of food  
so shooting them is far from crude.  
The worst animal for this  
whose numbers are very amiss  
walks not on four legs, nor has wings,  
feathers, fur, those kinds of things,  
but hairlessly creates a tool  
their environment with which they rule  
their numbers unchecked keep on growing  
somehow still they are unknowing  
they can not see they soon will die,  
hungry in their graves they'll lie  
to become soylent green tomorrow  
since streets cannot be tilled or furrowed  
so by all means, it's open season  
on geese, ducks, deer, and humans  
the last being the target mainly  
we'll shoot them, put them down humanely  
their screams and fear they matter not,  
we know better, it is their lot  
a bloody blade removes their skin  
watched from the woods by their own kin  
cooked and eaten, or left rotting  
in a bag tied up with knotting.  
It is still better for these dears  
than starving out over the years  
but here's a thought, truly are they  
so overpopulated as we say  
or is it really us, by reason,  
the species who needs death this season.

 

i'm really in a couplet-y mood lately, not sure why.  i got out of the couplet thing for awhile there and just just finished this.  unrelated: ugh endrhyme \*shudders\* (but i love it)

  anyhow, i don't mind hunters or meat eaters, i personally just try to avoid it if i don't need to, but it BOTHERS me when people justify it.  if you're going to go hunting, just be like "i want to go hunting...that's why i hunt" and then just don't be wasteful (letting it sit on the ground is still better than those idiots who leave it in a plastic bag hanging from a tree), but when you say "i hunt because they're overpopulated" that's just being dishonest, or "hunting the sick ones," that's just a lie.  be honest, you're hunting because you want to hunt.  is there something WRONG with that?  (unless you're hunting people, then i recommend secrecy...the government frowns on it)

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/Xek9EOQn