Haiku Of Zoos Poem by O Anna Niemus

ZOO HAIKU

A Detroit Zoo hippo choked on a tennis ball tossed
into his yawning mouth.

A Bronx Zoo polar bear suffocated in the heat in his
fur coat.

Until public outrage stopped it, the San Diego Zoo provided
primates for research to UC Davis.

Public outrage has not yet stopped the use of the Washington
Zoo as a supply line to National Inst. of Health Frankenstein
labs.

Kapir, a captive elephant, drowned at the Vienna Zoo.

The Israeli Army bulldozed a Gazo Zoo without removing
the gazelles or other animals. Some had their backs broken.
Others were killed outright.

Churchill bombed the Berlin Zoo

Dolphins have killed themselves rather than live in Sea World
captivity.

The Cincinnati Zoo has begun breeding cats for voodoo vivisectors.

The Cleveland Zoo provided 'excess' animals for Texas canned hunts
in which trophy seekers blast away at animals trapped in 9 ft high
chain link enclosures.

Other zoos breed mice to be fed to their snake population.

but in
Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okuku Zoo
a snake named Aochan.
refused to eat a living hamster, Gohan
put in his cage.

(Wolf Clifton did a poem about Aochan
and Gohan)