Koala Philosophy Poem by Raj Arumugam

life?
I’ll give you a bit of my
koala-brain wisdom
my take on life
developed these
twenty million years here in
Aussie bush before any of you humanity
came in boats or ships or planes
or whatever:
life’s a long sleep
and you wake up
eat a few eucalypt leaves
scratch your back
(ah, what’s life if you’ve no time
to scratch?
and oh, the joys of scratching one’s bump!)
and you go back to sleep…
that’s life, you miserable, inconvenient humans…
and don’t you ever disturb me
in my eighteen-hour stretches
of stillness and sleep…