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