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This poem is called "The Pig."

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And it's an intellectual pig
talking from his position

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in the barnyard.

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And it's a very ambiguous poem
or at least the ending is.

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I'm not sure what I
meant by it myself.

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"The Pig."

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I was born smaller than
they had been led to expect,

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less sweet, their plate
still shining with grease.

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My flesh quivers.

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I am the other creature.

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Nothing has changed,
the farmer's wife

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sees only my open mouth,
the least intelligence

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a beast may possess.

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Her husband feeds me
chemicals, precious leavings

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from his table, but he keeps
his distance like the rest.

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He knows I would eat a
human child on my own.

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Sometimes I stand
in a field and chew.

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My eyes close when
he is not around.

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What do I dream?

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He watches from the window,
thinking of other things.

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I appreciate that.

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But he will come upon me in the
morning after our little nap.

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I am dreaming of
nothing, I am a pig.

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He will raise his
ax, at last I will

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look at his wife, who holds
her breath in her hands,

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like a prayer.

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She is mine, there
is no doubt of that.

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I will die for her
and she will eat me.

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This is how I conceive of it.

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Many women still
dream of this act.

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