Meat

This is a poem that I had to write in my Creative Voice module. We had to be inspired by some sort of image and these were the things I was inspired by:

Firstly, Francis Bacon's 'Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef'.

Then Lady Gaga's Meat Dress popped into my head.

The 'It's a Band-saw' scene from Sherlock Holmes just finished the idea off!

Seeing these images you'll understand how I came up with this poem.

Meat

The meat that is turning,

grinding and churning.

Hooks that dangle

The meat that will mangle

They hang in the shadow

pig, sheep and fat cow

Juicy and dripping

some parts still weeping.

The cleaving and slicing,

the chopping and dicing.

Guts, heart and liver

Do give a shiver.

The smell of it ripens,

The look of it frightens.

And then, a slice from the saw 

you're living no more.