NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE AND A COW
				    				    
        "Firing 43 shots into an animal occurs to me to be unusual." 

        - Irvine City Manager Paul Brady
	 
Cops put how many bullets into the side   
of a runaway cow?   
How many shots per stomach is that?   
  
Well, maybe she got surly, maybe   
she was armed or pumped   
on growth hormones, maybe the poor cops   
just needed to vent their aggression on something.   
  
And why was a cow   
on the San Diego Freeway anyway?   
Who was she in such a hurry to visit?   
  
Couldn't she get a ride?  Couldn't she figure out   
how to flag a cab or hitchhike?  Or   
did she just get sick   
of the same old world of grass, manure, and barn,   
like others who become "dangerous"   
when they can't sit in their prescribed niche?   
  
Martyrs speak all languages, I guess,   
  
their spirit can't be bought   
by any amount of magic beans as they run naked down freeways,   
eyes wide as moons, breathing hard,   
lowing out   
their brief victory.