This is a true story.
Comic Poem
By Angela
Lansbury
[10:30,
26/03/2023] Angela Lansbury BA Hons:
The otters
came to eat pond fish
All three
of them, a family
Large fish,
carp, are a tasty dish
‘Chase them
off!’ “Rather you than me!’
The guards
ran up, they shouted loud,
The otters
scarper, we're a crowd,
A dead fish
thrown into a bin
Pristine,
curved eye - and fanned out fin?
But stiff, still,
with a gaping mouth?
‘Don't eat
it, it will make you ill !’
‘What’s to
be done? High barriers?
Tough love
- big otter carriers!’
Although
our link with nature’s lost
‘We must
think of safety, of health
The condo must
count costs, what’s lost
Consider
all, not just oneself.’
‘No matter
what we did, or saw
Call the Otter
Society
Today hang
back, obey the law
Let them
act - with propriety
‘Block the
canal, their route, but do
Let raging
water filter through …’
Then we
won't see, another night,
Such charm,
delight, and fright, excite.
Copyright
Angela Lansbury
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