Vegan

(Sung to “Feelings” by Morris Albert—dedicated to Professor Helene Dwyer upon the occasion of her retirement (6/06) and to the living witness of her exemplary life of reason and ethics)

 

Vegan, all my meals are vegan,

There cannot be meat in the meals that I love—

Singer argued so that I faced

My trying to ignore the feelings I gulped—

 

Vegan—all the meals I eat then

Are vacant of the recent swirls of brainy nervous pain.

 

Vegan—oo—oo—oo—vegan—

oo—oo—oo—vegan without sentient harms.

 

Vegan, vegan is the best of luncheons

And vegans have the best of values that Bentham puts forth—

 

Vegan—my moral life is vegan

and vacant of the recent swirls of brainy nervous pain.

 

Vegan—all the meals I eat then

Are vacant of the recent swirls of brainy sentient life.

 

Vegan—oo—oo—oo—vegan—

oo—oo—oo—vegan without any pain

Vegan—oo—oo—oo—vegan—

oo—oo—oo—vegan without any pain. . .