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Kate Danaher <kdanaher wrote: To:

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Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:00:34 -0800

[FFA] PEACE NOW!: A vegan rap poem

 

 

PEACE NOW!: A vegan rap poem

Copyright © 1988, 1996 by Billy Ray Boyd

(Previous version circulated as PEACE CREEP!)

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We talk about peace, / how to find it at last

In a world of equality / comin' to pass

But we are the rulers, / we are the kings

Death-squad marauders / to billions of beings

 

PEACE NOW!

 

They suffer and feel / like you and like me

But they're hidden away, / we pretend we don't see

Jammed in their cages, / restricted in crates

Never knowin' why / until it's too late

It's happenin' now, / they're writhing in pain

But their screams we don't hear, / don't feel any shame

Just smile as we shop / for their eggs and their milk

And talk about peace / as we dine with our ilk

 

PEACE NOW!

 

" Justice, " we cry, / " The war's gotta stop! "

But we kill every day / from up here on top

Our life is a joke, / our soul is all bare

Our politics are bankrupt / because we don't care

We think we're so radical, / we think we're so chic

But our bleeding hearts / they absolutely reek

Of two-faced hypocrisy / of word and of deed

Ignorin' the sufferin' / we bring as we eat

 

PEACE NOW!

 

And all of our words / they sound oh so nice

As long as we don't look / at the horrible price

We make all the animals / pay in this war

Of human supremacy / we wage from afar

Stop wringin' your hands! / No crocodile tears!

Why, animal abuse / has been happenin' for years!

But we don't care / an' we don't mind

We just wanna talk / about our OWN kind

 

PEACE NOW!

 

Human supremacy: / disease of the left

The right, and the center, / totally bereft

Can't stomach no prissy / concern for oppressed

No talk about peace-- / well surely you jest!

 

PEACE NOW!

 

We talk of equality / a terrible bore

Snuffin' out lives / when we go to the store

The things that we do / talk louder than words

And now you can see / we're really absurd

We LIKE to have servants / and animal slaves

And we could care less / how they go to their graves

But a movement's afoot / and before it's too late

Wake up, my friend, / or be left in the wake!

 

PEACE NOW!

 

Well, intimacy's / the word of the day

We cuddle and hug / and that's o.k.

But what about the animals / on our plate?

In our lovin' minds / how do THEY rate?

They like to touch, / play, be free

And make sweet love / like you and me

They don't wanna die / or be encaged

And you ask me why / I feel enraged!

 

PEACE NOW!

 

If THEY did to us / like WE do to them

We'd understand well / what now is dim

But we've got the power, / we've got the guns

And we've got the words / that let us run

From reality / of what we do

Of who we hurt, / of who we chew

But underneath / the pretense and games

You know it well, / we're causin' pain

 

PEACE NOW!

 

You're vegetarian / or so you say

But what's that food there / on your tray:

Breasts and legs, / dismembered parts

Of animals killed / for you, dear heart

Y'know chickens and fish / try to get away

From the hook an' knife / that we pay

For bloody work / that WE won't do

So cop to the violence / that's done for you!

 

PEACE NOW!

 

And it's not for need / we know it well

It's just a habit / we refuse to quell

We're bound to reap / the pain we sow

In eco-death / or atomic glow

What goes out / comes back around

And we're not gainin' / any ground

It's just OUR kind / that we respect

With bloody heel / on OTHERS' necks

 

PEACE NOW!

 

I know it's easy, / it's so quick

It's so convenient / just to pick

It off the shelf, / out of the can

And cook it up / in the fryin' pan

And it's not easy, / never been yet

To change old habits / firmly set

Oppression past / has left its mark

On us today / as we embark

On the path / of healing peace

Of letting go, / of violence ceased

 

Come now and join / the growin' wave

Of gentle dining, / lovin' brave

Of no more sayin' / we're number one

Of takin' our place / under the sun

Of equality / and respect for life

As we lay down / the butcher knife

And learn to live / and learn to love

And not to kill / the peaceful dove

It's possible now / you know it can be

It all depends / on you and me

 

PEACE NOW!

 

 

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