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ZOO HAIKU

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A lone tiger lying
on
concrete as
human crowds gawk
at him.

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A polar bear died of
the heat at the Bronx Zoo

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A hippo choked to death on a
tennis ball thrown into
his yawning mouth at the Detroit Zoo

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The Cleveland Zoo sold
'excess' animals for
canned hunts in Texas.

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The San Diego Zoo til
stopped supplied primates
for lethal research by UC
Davis Frankensteins.

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Kapir the elephant
drowned as the
Danube poured into
his concrete room
20 feet below
ground level.

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For mercy all night
called the zoo's polar bear.
He had a tiny cage..
which no bear could bear.

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A monkey was beaten
to death at the Boise Idaho
Zoo
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At the Akron Ohio Zoo,
Easter bunnies and pet mice
brought to the zoo for shelter
have been secretively fed to snakes.

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Many zoos are secret
vivisection supply houses
... facilitating secret torture
of animals.
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Very few zoos protect the animals
from psychopathic children and adults
who seek to harm them with missiles
thrown at them, poison etc.

-saiom shriver-

Footnote:

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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) "A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a
string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death
with a rock, the zoo's director said Friday. "(When children see millions of
cows, sheep and kangaroos being murdered, are they taught any different in the
Outback?)
II
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/08/130708fa_fact_lepore
Jill Lepore
re polar bear in the city zoo: "He had the smallest cage you ever saw," she told
me. "All night, he cried."
III
http://www.nairaland.com/1293956/man-jailed-killing-monkey-u.s#15774137
An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a
monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.
Michael W, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and
misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from the break-in and beating death of the
monkey at Zoo Boise in November.
IV Zoos: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-in-entertainment/zoos.aspx

DICK GODDARD

Oh the train of Dick Goddard
takes very many cars Godward

-saiom shriver-