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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The 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 rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass.

And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what's so weird about us humans.
We can write beautiful poetry about cows, then eat them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That's because humans can turn their empathy off when something is normalised by society.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

This, and the image accompanied by it, were one of the things that broke me when I was younger.

I legit cried because it was so beautifully put together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That is beautiful. Thank you.