THE BAIT
THE BAIT
To trap a chicken,
a few grains of corn.
just a bone
to trap the antelope
okra is enough
To trap a cobra
the egg of a chicken
to trap a bush rat
a locust bean
to trap a goat
a piece of yam
to trap the adulterer
suggest sex
to trap a thief
just a coin
But to trap an entire nation
with beef from the cattle?
If meat is that delicious
raise your own goats
build poultries
let chicken range free
Don’t let them trap you
with the greed of your throat
May what we eat
not end up eating us.
***I took this picture of a free-range goat,
giving birth wẹ́rẹ́ in Ile Ife
without any human aid.
She had just birthed the kid standing next to her.
Look carefully and you will see the placenta.
She is getting ready to push out the second kid.
Local goats thrive in millions in southern Nigerian ecology
I once saw a goat pulling down a pasted poster from the wall
and munching on it
as if it was delicious goat feeds.
Why is this enslavement by cows
which causes human abductions,
wanton killings and submission of your national sovereignty
to aliens who subjugate you.
To catch a nation
with just the cow?
May what we eat
not end up eating us.
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