Two Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin

okay boyz and girls and non-binary pals, rarely do i ever make posts online about things, but i recently came across this website (spacehey) and knew that it would just fuel everything i wanted as a young lad
skipping boring details, i knew this would be the PERFECT spot to just nerd out to a crowd and see what people say :]]

so illll start with some of my favorite thingz! writing!!! and poetry!!!!!

this poem i have here for yallzz today is a small one called "Two-Headed Calf", by Laura Gilpin

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect

summer evening: the moon is rising

over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.

i dont know much about her as an author, but this poem right here sparked everything in meee. when i first read the poem, i didn't think to much of it. but then, suddenly, without warning, i started thinking about it... lol

i dont like to see it as a "human destroy life for gain", which... well the poem most likely could be about that, but i'm not sure if i like that reasoning behind the poem.
see, it focuses a lot on the calf. it is a "freak of nature", but it is still alive. Two headed calfs are a real phenomena, albeit rare, and they never live very long 

BUT, this calf saw the world in which ways have never even seen before. it saw the stars, it felt the quiet, clean summer evening air, it saw the moon, and ultimately; saw twice as many stars as usual...

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