Cow poetry is happening in Vermont this weekend.

Currently in the process of making cheese and ice cream.

Cows pretty much represent everything there is to Vermont. Between Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Cabot cheese, if cows didn't exist, Vermont wouldn't exist.

Since cows are the backbone of sustenance for Vermont's belly, they're now sustenance for Vermont's mind. At this weekend's Slow Living Expo (this is a real thing) in Brattleboro, VT, cows grazing on the local common will have words placed upon them. As they meander aimlessly, local citizens are asked to write (presumably slowly) the poetry they see form.

This is the creative lovechild of Kristen Fledderjohn, a graduate student and intern at the School for International Training, who tells the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper, "There are real live animals. The idea is to think about refrigerator magnet poetry then think about alphabet soup and how all the words are formed out of the letters then mix that with cows."

In case cow poetry isn't your thing, the Slow Living Expo will also have a celebrity cow milking contest, as well as a cow beauty contest where one lucky heifer will be named Miss Vermoont.

And here you thought Iowa had a stranglehold on all things slow.