Well, her nightmare is about the fact that when she was young
she used to swim and pigs can't swim,
but they've been bred so that they
have such a very heavy jowl, but it's lethal for them
to actually swim.
They cut their throats that way.
Her nightmare about that.
But I think there are some young persons in the audience
and I think I won't read that one, it's a bit scary.
"Her Lament."
I'm going to spend too much time on these
but I'll read you "Her Lament" and "Her Sister," I guess.
This is "Her Lament."
"When they caressed and held in loving arms
the small pig that I was, I was so glad,
I blessed my singular fate.
How could I know my humans would not
grow to fit me as I became Sylvia the Sow?
He and she humans stayed the same,
and now even look smaller.
Perhaps I should not have learned
to adore pleasures that could not last.
I grew so fast.
My destiny kept me lean, and yet my weight increased.
Great Sylvia, I must stay under the table at the humans' feast.
And once, scratching my back on it,
I made the table fall, dishes and all.
How could a cherished piglet have grown so tall?