{"id":366,"date":"2006-08-06T21:04:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T20:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2006-08-06T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T20:10:09","slug":"dance-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Dance Of The Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had this entry in the works for a few days. It’s hard to write. You will see why.<\/p>\n

But let’s start on a positive note.<\/p>\n

\"vanilje\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Summertime goats.<\/p>\n

\"magnethe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Beautiful Magnethe. She often does that with her head. Movies it back and around like that. I’m not sure why. When she was a little kid I thought she was trying to scratch herself with her horns, but her horns were too small to reach. But now her horns are big and strong and she still swings her head around like that. I don’t think any of the other goats do it. Certainly not as often as her. She is special.<\/p>\n

\"magnethe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And funny.<\/p>\n

She likes thistles. Sometimes you will hear me go “ow-ow-ow-ow” because I’m picking thistle leaves for her.<\/p>\n

\"magnethe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And like the other goats she stares when something grabs her attention.<\/p>\n

\"3b\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3B stopping to smell the flowers.<\/p>\n

\"mads\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Mads having a good rest.<\/p>\n

\"3b+springbok\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3B and Springbok duelling.<\/p>\n

\"3b+springbok\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They can go at each other fiercely…<\/p>\n

\"3b+springbok\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then the next second they are best friends again. Wouldn’t it be great if humans could settle things without killing each other?<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be great if humans didn’t kill?<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be great…<\/p>\n

I mentioned a new woman working at the playground, in fact there are two. I’m still not sure exactly how permanent they might be. Kurt is on vacation, maybe they are just filling in. Anyway, one of them is called Sara. They’re both extremely nice people by the way. But as I was saying, I was sitting with the goats and then Sara came over with a family, showing them around. I got to tell them a bit about the goats, how old they are and what they’re called and all that. It would have been really nice. It was really nice until they asked if the kids would be staying. Sara answered. She said Vanilje would probably stay. And 3B and Springbok would probably be slaughtered soon, before their meat gets that male goat flavour.<\/p>\n

Punch me in the stomach, why don’t you?<\/p>\n

Slaughtered. Killed. Eaten. <\/p>\n

I knew they weren’t supposed to stay. But they’ve been here for so long that I sort of forgot about that. And I never imagined that they would be slaughtered. As much as I miss Mathilde, at least I know she is somewhere, presumably happy and doing well. But the tought of someone killing 3B and Springbok and eating them… it makes me… sad. And angry. And sad, very sad. I had to cry a little when Sara and the family left. If I’d been all alone at home I would probably have cried a lot.<\/p>\n

And then Springbok came over to me and stood still while I scratched him under the chin.<\/p>\n

\"springbok\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s not easy to get goat kids to stand still. Unless you have food for them or you scratch them in one of the “special spots”. Under the chin is not generally one of those spots. It was almost like he knew I needed it. I know, I know. Projecting human feelings onto animals, etc. He walked away and then 3B came over to me and stood still while I stroked him. It is crushing. Crushing. It is killing me.<\/p>\n

Why do humans always have to destroy good things? Tear down beauty and erect ugly monuments to our progress. The more we progress the worse we get. And god forbid they would taste like goat, we must kill them while they’re still innocent. We must kill them before they know what is coming.<\/p>\n

Ugh.<\/p>\n

I assume Sara talked to the others from the playground about this. She wouldn’t just make it up. And I assume there’s nothing I can do. I would offer to work for free, to “sponsor” them if I could. To take them home and keep them safe. But I doubt there is anything I can do. I don’t think they’d kill them if there were other options. It’s not like a couple of kids will make them lots of money or anything. I’m sure they’d rather sell them to another playground or something like that.<\/p>\n

Maybe you get used to it. When you have seen kids come and go for years, when you stop seeing them as little miracles. Maybe then it doesn’t hurt. <\/p>\n

But it hurts me.<\/p>\n

3B is my favourite of all the kids. Springbok is the last of Magnethe’s. They are both so wonderful. I love them so much. And now they’re gonna be someone’s dinner. Tell me the world is fair?<\/p>\n

Maybe you get used to it.<\/p>\n

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I have had this entry in the works for a few days. It’s hard to write. You will see why. But let’s start on a positive note. Summertime goats. Beautiful Magnethe. She often does that with her head. Movies it back and around like that. I’m not sure why. When she was a little kid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plume.dk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}