Coyote And The Dog Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Coyote and the dog

There is fight between men; pet owners, wild lovers; who is who, what is what?
Who is wrong, what is right?
“Attacked child, dog was killed, ” report says: “It was the coyote.”
Pet losers complain: “Ministry must remove, it is wild, dangerous.”
Reply is: “It lives in public land, eats your waste and compost as its food.”

I feel the: “You deprived carnivore, of natural habitat.”

Two exchange range of words: “predators, shoot at sight, is danger for public safety, must be trapped, and removed.”
Other side then echoes: “your traps brutal with the teeth of metal in its legs, euthanize the wild life.”

I hear: “urban life endangered, problematic, ministry must do the proper, private property.”

I recall the park in Montreal, and raccoons in garbage; I am lost.

Pet owners see the things different, defenders cry wolf: “Consider natural right of the wild.”

Coyote is small, and basal when seen with closest relative, gray wolf.
Is highly versatile and adjusts to changes, too smart and wants rights…
(Like rebels of sixties, the war of Vietnam, blacks’ rights, feminists, etc.)
Coyote can be wronged for golden jackal of the Old World; in hunting.