The Burden Of The Beast

The beast of burden And the donkey said to itself, a man came to the fence today gave me a slice of bread looked me in the eye as to see if I had an inner life What did he expect to find a scientist? For heaven`s sake I`m a donkey who has been conditioned to love humanity, and for a slice of bread, I kiss his face with my smacking lips. This makes this lonely man so happy that he scratches my ear where I can never reach. There is a small farm nearby the farmer has two donkeys and a small blue tractor, sometimes he uses one of the beasts to plough a few furrows he says it is because it saves on diesel, I think he is a sentimental old fool.