How do you view sheep,
he asked?
I consider the
sheep, a single sheep,
my grandmother
kept fenced
on the back acre
to avoid having
to pay to have
the grass cut,
the sheep kept it
mowed just fine
and a couple of
times a year
the man would
come to shear it,
he seemed to
like the quality
of grass-fed
wool. So I consider
the sheep, the
sheep without
a shepherd,
smelly, lost, rather
grotesque dirty
sheep, wandering
without
direction or purpose,
often biting
each other and
everything else,
and I think
that for these
wretched sheep
his heart broke.
Photograph by Petr Kratochvil via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
3 comments:
Loved this. Sometimes the appointed rounds are like eating the same patch of grass over and over. I'm glad the Shepherd hasn't lost sight of this dirty ole sheep. Shep? (sheep: singular sheep: plural hmmm why isn't sheeps?) English, go figure.
the wool
the food
fresh water
lots
Have I ever talked about our pet Sport? He was one of twins that his mother rejected; we got him from U of Maryland. He was not the first sheep we owned as kids, but he had quite a personality (he ate the antique wicker carriage we used to push him in until he grew too big for it) and though a bit of a herbivore he preferred chicken and peas and an occasional cookie (he knew where they were kept). He also had a favorite place on the couch; woe be to the person who sat there (think, sheep backs up, begins run, and rams you in the kneecaps). We had him until I was a sophomore in college.
Sheep have a rep as not being too smart; Sport disproved that.
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