The killing has started again. They shoot us, and then, we trumpet our last breath then we crumple into death. The African men, who killed us, then, hack out our tusks, leave us as husks in the African dust. But, **** us they must, as for doing this deed, they'll be able to feed, their children, for a year, thus reducing their fear. They were paid more than they ever saw, making them willing to do the killing, because Chinamen carve our ivory then sell it to the nouveau rich, who, want everything which money can buy. I hear Mother Earth cry, stop! As gold inflates their vanity but provides not the tiniest drop of any decency or humanity, to encourage an end to this insanity. They just live the lie that they can buy, the elusive emotion, happiness, derived from trinkets and rings and other silly, sparkly things, that they think they can forever possess.