The Way of Some Flesh

Some kinds of meat are quickly consumed, more easily

digested.

Others, not to everyone's taste, are more rubbery,

Chewed on by the eater 

Till all of the juices 

Nourish every drop of blood in his body, 

Till he bleeds every piece white.

In response to the constant raking up of the beef ban controversy as part of political opportunism, specifically in the context of Dadri and UP elections.

First published in Muse India, July 2016.