I arrived today in London, but my thoughts still run to the Meat Man. BorFest 2009 went off without a hitch last night. The evil forces of Decemko that were trying to prevent Bor from completing his mission, realized that in firing the Meat Man they had gone too far. The whole of the Climate Advocacy Institute had rallied in honor of the Meat Man. The advocacy training we had all received came in handy, and a boycott was quickly organized. While the Meat Man remains unemployed, we did manage to drive down the price of beer by half a lira and to strike fear into the heart of the fascist powers at Decemko.
In their weakened state, the fascist forces even came to fear the BorFest Defense Force. The five asses of Force were as ready as five asses could be to provide security for BorFest, particularly Jumbo, who spent the day training for BorFest by ambushing institute facilitators who were annoying him by taking the public laptops away from the common computer area and not putting the back.
Bor began the evening reading his ode to the Meat Man:
The Meat Man’s Gone
In memory of a good friend
The meat man’s gone
I guess that’s what they call: the silence of the lambs
Put down your forks
Dry your tears with napkins stained with oily drops
The meat man’s gone
He was the joy of our mornings
The last memory of our late nights
His smile lit up our sky’s
But now the meat man’s gone
His hands would carve from meat our joy,
Lambs not of god but of divine taste
Corners of our mouths would spread in smiles
As we licked them in memory of our meals
But now the meat man’s gone
No more: Messieurs or Madames
No more whistles to the clock
No pardons or ein biers
Only silence
For he the meat man’s gone
So let us rise our forks
One last time
And dry the tears that run by our oily lips
And remember him
’Cause he might be gone but he stays in our hearts
Forever that same, smiley
Meat man
It might have been a bit more effective if when he Bor called on us all to raise our forks, if he didn’t pull a spoon out of his pocket, but, it’s Bor, and he meant well. We are sure the Meat Man would have been proud!
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