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by Aileen Fisher "Think……………" said the robin,
"Think……………" said the jay, sitting in the garden,.
Talking one day.
"Think about people---- the way they grow:
they don’t have feathers at all, you know.
"They don’t eat beetles,
they don’t grow wings,
they don’t like sitting on wires and things.
"Think!" said the robin.
"Think!" said the jay.
"Aren’t people funny to be that way?" (sent by Mrs. Sia Duan Heng, Sitiawan) |
by C.R. Ying, North Carolina If I were a bird, to utter my first word I truly would wish to say you humans are absurd With all us wonderful creatures: First,
You crowd us out, with too many a human birth Then flock to the zoos with camera and kid Our habitats ruined, This is what you did Then fail to lay claim our pending extinction: Human population is to blame When 'too' few a wise humans; in protest explain The rest of you in unison resist and complain If these humans dare to utter, without us animals you can't exist The rest of you question: What are you, an activist? The next time you visit a creature at the zoo Ask yourself, without us whatever will you do? (sent by Dr. Neoh Chin Boon) |