Cock Fighting

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Cock Fighting

Yesterday evening, while I was enjoying my usual pint in the corner shop that I euphemistically call ‘The Pub’ and which readers of Behind The Smile will know as Nong’s, a youth carried two chickens onto the plot of land opposite, put one down, but held the other firmly around the body. Then he hit the free bird with the other. It was clear that he was trying to start them fighting.

The free bird pecked the captive, and the captive defended himself, for it was obvious now that both birds were cocks, and this was a training session. The piece of crap, for I can think of no other adequate word to describe him, chased the free bird all over the four-hundred square metre plot trying to provoke animosity between the two poor animals, but it was plain to see that they were not interested in fighting.

After twenty minutes, he had a spectatorship of ten kids and four adults and he released his captive cock and chased them around, urging them to start fighting with his feet.

In ten years here, I have never seen anything like that before. It saddens me, but now, two hours and two beers later, it makes me think of our ‘superiors’ who goad us to fight for them by whipping up ill feeling between people who don’t feel it using the media as their tools.

And thinking that makes me even sadder still because it is happening somewhere near every single person who is reading this, and even those billions who are not… and it has ever been thus.

There will always be some piece of crap trying to get us cocks fighting their war for them, while their own family sits well behind the lines in ‘protected jobs’, such as being rich.

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All the best,

Owen

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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