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Maid's Milk


Bao a young sow opens the refrigerator she says "No milk!" 

Her mother says now is your time, 

I am old and have fed you well so you must make your own milk.

The Sow half cow wondered what that meant,

She sucked the air with a sower grin and thought of the time she spent,

I work the fields, I clean the air, I drink my mother's milk,

I must be on my neighbors time for drink as white as silk,

She worked and worked and time she spent earning night and day,

And as she grew in spirit old had lost sight of fertile play,

The time became of essence the spirit became of now,

A bull had come to know her and three children had the sow,

She looked the younglings in the eye so hungry they had been,

but despite the work she did her truth still lie within,

Depressed from not having the right eats,

to her old mothers house her spirit she did meet,

Her mother looked into her eyes and asked her what's the matter,

"Mother I am sad because I cant find milk from your bladder",

Her mother said "oh dear! thats fine, dont you know how mothers take,

The secret' your loins lay inside whose spirit I do break."

At once the sow now cow knew what to do and rushed she did off in a hurry,

How fast she raised up her kids suckle they did with fury,

With no memory of where or when the milk ended up in the fridge,

The old cows spirit did mend as the cycle started again.

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