Hi!
My dd is doing a poetry project, and she found the following while looking for an example of personification. I am a vegetarian, and know there are quite a few here, and thought you might find this amusing:
VEGETARIANS
Vegetarians are cruel unthinking people.
Everybody knows that carrots scream when they are grated
That a peach bleeds when torn apart.
Do you believe an orange insensitive
to thumbs gouging out its flesh?
That tomatoes spill their brains
painlessly? Potatoes, skinned alive
and boiled, the soil’s little lobsters.
Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt
when peas are ripped from their overcoats,
the hide flayed off sprouts,
cabbage shredded, onions beheaded.
Throw in the towel and lay down the hoe.
Mow no more. Let my people go!
Roger McGough
My dd is doing a poetry project, and she found the following while looking for an example of personification. I am a vegetarian, and know there are quite a few here, and thought you might find this amusing:
VEGETARIANS
Vegetarians are cruel unthinking people.
Everybody knows that carrots scream when they are grated
That a peach bleeds when torn apart.
Do you believe an orange insensitive
to thumbs gouging out its flesh?
That tomatoes spill their brains
painlessly? Potatoes, skinned alive
and boiled, the soil’s little lobsters.
Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt
when peas are ripped from their overcoats,
the hide flayed off sprouts,
cabbage shredded, onions beheaded.
Throw in the towel and lay down the hoe.
Mow no more. Let my people go!
Roger McGough
