following like sheep
awakening sycophants
weeping, plaintive bleats
This senryū is my response to
RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku
Prompt Challenge #292,
where the prompt words are sheep and weep.
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rivrvlogr 
I hope the sheep awaken and bleat.
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Yes, please!
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Their children of course are off for the slaughterhouse.
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Sadly so. Our (supposed) bargain at their expense.
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😦
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You say so much and so strongly in only eight words.
miriam
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Thank you, Miriam. If only it wasn’t so.
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I do so agree with you.
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Every flock needs a shepherd…
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Well, maybe not THAT one.
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😉
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Cute little lamb cartoon. Image of wide-eyed innocence? … or wild-eyed ignorance? Enough fluff to keep from rubbing against one another’s doubts as they follow one another to the polls …
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Hopefully wide-eyed means wide awake!
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Sheep needs a shepherd.
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That they do,
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