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Poetry - Cow 1 Is Not Cow 2
Cow 1 is not Cow 2*
Under the rising sun The enemy came Wearing my face.
After Pearl Harbor, I became the enemyAfter 9/11, another enemy.After Covid-19, another Asian enemy.Again, another enemy who wears Putin’s face.
Cow 1 is not Cow 2.Putin brutalizes UkraineYour Russian neighbor is not Putin.Careful, careful, Cow 1 is not Cow 2.
My ancestors bombed Pearl Harbor,I became Cow 1. Yet, Cow 1 is not cow 2.Such a simple, uncomplicated rule.
Semanticist Dr. S.I. Hayakawa w…
