In the weird wonderful world of reincarnation.

What you eat
is what you are
in the weird, wonderful
world of reincarnation.

Humans on all fours
in fields of green, grazing.
Meat eaters are served
as butcher’s meat platters.
A human chop anyone!

A flock of humans
fly overhead south
for the winter.
While caged humans lay eggs,
some enjoy being free range.

An excited human fetches a stick,
a human yolk is cracked from an egg,
a cocky human on a perch
repeats what you say.

In the vegetable patch of vegans:
a human carrot is pulled
from the ground by its hair,
a bite of a human was an apple.

Yes! In the weird, wonderful
world of reincarnation
how the tables have turned.
But we only see the flora
and fauna as they are.

Meanwhile,
the cows are in the kitchen
baking a cake while the bulls
in the lounge are watching
sport on the Tv sipping coffee.
No longer does the chicken
cross the road,
the chicken drives a car!

In the weird world
of reincarnation.
It’s moo to you,
and moo from them,
and c**k a doodle doo
from me.

Reviews

[Ken Simm.]

So often your whimsy hides the intelligence that flows throughout your work. As in this case.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Ken

[Sami Khalil]

Role reversal is happening all over, in a serious and funny way.
People are truly behaving like animals in the law of the jungle.
You might get your wish and come back as a Holy cow one day.

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks for sharing my humour Sami

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome sir.

[andrew mitchell]

I am honoured by your visits, my friend.

[Sami Khalil]

Yes siiiirrrrr. Any time.
Long live the Emperor of wit and humour.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Bizarre to a tee fella. Creative and very zany indeed but entertaining. I have said it before not even a psychiatrist should delve inside your cranium lest the fear kill them on the spot. Oh and that bull drinking coffee and watching sport is definately NOT an Australian!

[andrew mitchell]

It’s funny John some people believe in reincarnation hence the mad ditty and I was going to put beer instead of coffee but that would be too Aussie lol. Thanks for reading. In its day I’m sure Monty Python could have had a similar sketch of this!

[kentuck14]

Your imagination went wild with this one Andrew! This no doubt goes back to the old saying: "You are what you eat". Brilliant mate.
T.

[andrew mitchell]

Thanks Tom, just imagine the chaos if this was true especially all those rich folks lol coming back as caviar!

[kentuck14]

Fish eggs!!! If it's good enough for fish it should be good enough for some characters!

[.]

Hahaha. Incredibly inventive writing, as always!

It does make perfect sense, too. People are forever saying that they want to return as some animal or other after they pass and what a chaotic world they would return to if your write has any truth to it! If we want to return as animals, the reverse should also apply to the animals themselves. A topsy-turvy world it would be indeed!

Your writes are always out of left field and clever and this one is another for your burgeoning pile of creativity.

Great work.

[andrew mitchell]

As always thank you for reading my works Doodley and for your generous kind words my friend on your reviews.

[andrew mitchell]

I’ve always appreciated the humour of Michael Leunig’s cartoons and the humour of Monty Python and John Cleese.

[.]

Yes. Leunig's cartoons were excellent. Quirky yet always full of thought. Very much like your writes, Andrew.