1. The Errant Cow
The errant cow was accosted one day
As she grazed on grass a mile away from
her home,
The accoster was another cow Belle who
had been allowed to roam.
“But child, I see you have a calf following
you,
How did that really happen? You were
always so tight-rope till you couldn’t
laugh,
How come, and who with, you get a
calf?”
“Take care what you say to me,
It’s a good thing we are not in company,
For I would sue you for libelling me! “

2. The Errant Cow
“I never did see, far less did feel any bull
harassing me!
That creature you see at my side, with
that face
That ain’t no calf at all! It’s an alien being
from Inner Space
That the satellite repairman from Outer
Space forgot
When I was being friendly and what not.”
The other cow lowed and mooed,
And shook her head in disbelief and
couldn’t admit
what she thought she had heard of the
matter
She collected her wits which were all
scattered
By the startling news of the alien visit.

3. The Errant Cow
“Come my dear, and graze by
here, I want to hear about this
happening for see,
This is surely a new one on me!”
The errant obliged, and moved
close to her ear.
She whispered in a low so
low, The other tried her best to
listen, but no,
Try as Belle might, and with all
that she tried
Not a single word to her ears was
carried.
She asked errant cow to speak
more clear.

4. The Errant Cow
So the errant replied, “Sorry my
dear,
Just put your ears on hold, you’re so
eager
Let me adjust the volume of the
speaker.”
She snorted and cleared her
throat, Then began to relate her
story by rote.
“One day some time ago, my owner
tied me near a satellite dish
To graze there on the green grass
delish.
When I moved over for the green
grass to reach
The satellite dish started to
preach, Boasting how he was the
Greatest,
The most powerful in the West!”

5. The Errant Cow
“He said that he was better than
Mohammed Ali
Whose feet were really made from
clay.
Greater than Emily Post he was, he
did say
That high arbiter of good taste, for of
legs, she had only two and since he
was on a tripod, he noted that two
was less than three.”
“As for cable news they provided the
views only after it had already
happened, did they present. But he
was able to forecast the important
events minutes before they all took
place! The further the distance the
less time on his forecast he had to
waste. “

6. The Errant Cow
“There were some other cows in the
area and an animal that I first mistook
for a bull.
On his neck there was no rope, and no
sign of a tail behind,
so of course I felt like a dope, to be so
sadly mistaken and blind,
for obviously he was no bull at all!
When he came up to greet me, I told
him I don’t talk to strangers,
and who the devil he thought he
was, coming by a respectable cow like
me.
He told me that I didn’t have to be so
uppity to space-beings from another
galaxy.
The satellite dish had picked him up
And beamed him down here to make
friends with the polity. “

7. The Errant Cow
“Look, do you see all of those cows down there?
I personally consorted with them all and so,
But since you don’t talk to strangers, I’ll just bid
you good day, and adieu! “
“Well girl I was feeling un-neighborly and wanted
to receive the guest like the other cows.
He provided the same service he gave to the
others and how , and said that the next year I
could get another service for free.”
“ Now I have a little space-being calling me
Maamaa
Always coming to me for milk he wails
Sometimes he looks like a calf, then when I look
at his bottom half
I remember he doesn’t have a tail. If that satellite
alien comes near to me again,
I’m going to give him a good piece of my mind! “
“My dear don’t do that” said Belle “because if
you so do, He will boast like all males that he
played you for a fool.”