From Animal magic/tragic
The old woman from the woods
The sadness in her eyes,
really came as no surprise,
as I stared at her, intensely, through the glass.
As countless have before,
she must find it such a bore.
Small wonder that she turned & showed her ***
Does she stare back at mankind
& think, “What is it they find,
that draws them all to come & look at me?”
Does she think,”If we're so clever,
why does it never, ever
occur to us that she'd be better free?”
Briz 30/9/13
Mar 3, 2014
Mar 3, 2014 at 5:39 AM UTC
From Animal magic/tragic
The old woman from the woods
The sadness in her eyes,
really came as no surprise,
as I stared at her, intensely, through the glass.
As countless have before,
she must find it such a bore.
Small wonder that she turned & showed her ***
Does she stare back at mankind
& think, “What is it they find,
that draws them all to come & look at me?”
Does she think,”If we're so clever,
why does it never, ever
occur to us that she'd be better free?”
Briz 30/9/13
After looking into the eyes of a fully-grown, female
orang-utang. She was spread out, in a hammock-like
sling, high up in a pen, at Chester zoo. I was on a timber
walkway, enjoying watching the younger primates,
on the ground, below.
