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Sheep Better Poets Than Cows

Random cow poetry has some competition - random sheep poetry. A writer in England was given a grant of €2,000 to paint words on the sides of sheep and let them wander around forming random poetry. One example of the sheep's work:

Warm drift, graze gentle, White below the sky, Soft sheep, mirrors, Snow clouds.

Definitely an improvement over the bovine poets' work.

Posted by Lesley on December 4, 2002 07:34 AM |

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Never herd (pardon the pun) of animal art or poetry is this some sort of cosmopolitan fad? Out west we tend to eat our livestock rather than get all artsy with them. I have played bullshit bingo, and gone cow tipping .... oh and snipe hunting too.

Posted by: Justin | December 4, 2002 07:55 PM

Now that's funny!

Posted by: Anna | December 4, 2002 09:05 PM

Yeah, us city slickers are really into bovine and ovine poetry. You should see the livestock wandering up and down 5th Avenue, hither and thither, to and fro. Well, the urban livestock anyway. You know, taxis, buses, insane bike messengers.

Posted by: Lesley | December 4, 2002 09:56 PM

So, if this guy lettered the words to one of Shakespeare's sonnets on a bunch of sheep how long would it take for them to ....oh, never mind.

Posted by: SS | December 5, 2002 10:47 PM