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[Guest_Nina_*]

James

You are most welcome

Nina

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Fran, thanks for your reply and sorry to make you queasy.

However, my message is not violence; it is peace. We should only kill animals when we have to for our lives' sake (and many people are far more extreme than that).

My poem did not contain anything like as much as the info I just gave in prose. It did not attempt to link wanton violence towards animals with fascism and so on. (Ironic you should say pared-down - I have just replied to your posting in the story thread about that very topic - a cross-over between poetry and prose).

In prose, I think what the poem says is "Why should pheasants not have the equal right to murder people, if people insist on murdering pheasants?" That's all. The rest was an extension - a reason for the poem, I suppose.

I hope the poem said that - did it not? If not, I shall have to revise, yes.

Re: Animal Farm. I don't know but wild animals often kill very nastily... then again, not often for fun (there are exceptions - e.g. foxes). Then again, if they became a comfortable dominant species, who knows...

Thanks very much for sticking with it Fran and I hope you feel better soon.

Best wishes,

James.