Someone asked me if

Being a vegetarian means

I can’t give blowjobs.

Clearly, that was my first concern.

I didn’t think how

It might effect

Everyday life.

The shopping.

Cooking.

My health.

Of course my first thought would have been

For the changes it might bring

To my ability to demean myself.

They ask why I did it.

How to explain

To their selectively blocked ears

That I can’t stand to walk through a field of cows

And see stacks of walking burgers?

That watching a friend’s beautiful chickens

And thinking how ready they are to be killed,

Plucked

And roasted

Makes me sick with myself.

How can I bear

To watch a deer prance away

So elegantly

And return home to venison stew?

But the ears of the talented

Never listen to the words of the thinkers.

So what’s the use

Of explaining your deep moral beliefs

To someone who tells you that you’re stupid

And asks about blowjobs?