what happens to human life on Earth if dairy cows become annoyed 

Westport, Massachusetts.

standing at an electrified fence of low voltage

as not to hurt the dairy cows but keep them penned,

they approach out of curiosity with their big,

wet noses closing-in cautiously, but onward,

grouping themselves in one moving mass of cows

forming a tight semicircle of themselves.

from above, an alien species might log the herd

into the official record as a "one cow sighting,

many heads and legs..horrible"!

in the pasture the cows grunt quietly, seemingly

in acquiescence to their station in life, black-eyed,

maybe vacant. who can tell? not me, but they

don't appear to be annoyed by their surroundings

and they're certainly not as nuts as humans.

life on Earth circulates because it has to, because

its stability depends upon rotation.

this is Westport, Massachusetts in a time of peace

and tranquility, bypassing the news of the day,

reporting incidents of political vulgarity, overreach,

and nincompooposity, leaving the question of what happens

to human life on Earth if dairy cows become annoyed

open to scrutiny, rumor and increasing fears of human extinction.