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Ode to Larry the Bull

Annemarie Berukoff
2 min readSep 7, 2021

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Meet Larry, a 2 year-old crossbred Black Hereford and Red Angus bull,

Heavy set, placid, handsome, sizeable scrotum with 50 billion sperm …

Hired to farmers for a week to service their cows to make calves,

Crying, gangling babies to grow a farm’s food supply and prosperity.

Farmers make life decisions to best suit their purposes;

Rights to breed, to impregnate and choice of breeding life.

In the bovine world, the bulls rule and cows have no rights;

They are just reproductive property, no self-determination.

It is said in our world, women have rights over their bodies,

To have babies born healthy with security for positive upbringing.

Only new laws can punish abortions by private citizens’ bounties;

But in a crazy world, who tramples Larry’s rights to keep sharing his semen

When a farmer gets a bounty reward each time Larry tries to procreate…

Or a man’s rights for one-night stands with baby sperm without consequence.

Annemarie Berukoff

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Annemarie Berukoff
Annemarie Berukoff

Written by Annemarie Berukoff

Retired teacher — Affiliate Marketer, Big Picture Wisdom, author 4 e-books: social media teens, eco-fiction ecology https://helpfulmindstreamforchanges.com

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