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Zoos
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Sweet Elephant of the Morning by Stewart Stafford
O sweet elephant of the morning,
What loud noise you make,
With your leaden feet,
And trumpet voice.
You spray water,
On your thick, dusty skin,
And on anyone in proximity,
To your body.
Your trunk is a grey, reaching arm,
And your tusks resemble curved lances,
Or elongated walrus teeth,
To fight off rivals.
© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.
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Feliz is our lone jaguar. The last jaguar we had before him died of despair. That wasn't the official cause of death, of course not, but we all knew it. The rumor goes that the zoo's owners, the Pinkton family, paid an obscene amount to acquire another jaguar, probably the only one on Earth, given the state of the countries in which the creature's natural habitat once existed. Feliz was plucked out of the last few acres of the Amazon as the bulldozers waited, like customers impatiently hovering
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