Animal Crackers(Tankas)

NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING Even the lion’s roar doesn’t waken the sleepy child its snores much louder hung over mother’s shoulder dreaming of scary monsters. MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO Ha! Cheeky monkey snatches snazzy mobile phone mimicking a call takes its own picture frightened by flash then...hands it back. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Child torn from Mum’s arms small head smashed against bare wall Dad violently rapes Mum. Spectators look on at Zoo frightened by big baboon. LITTLE BY LITTLE Old polar bear flies through water as if through air turns & hits same spot non-stop bored out of its mind wears away deep dent in wall. BARS Leopard changes spots stripes now cover its body becoming tiger bar’s shadows creating this imaginary animal. SUMMER’S DEATH Dead blackened bee falls from treetop swarming with ants crawling all over as if humans processing whale’s carcase after the kill. AIUTO! (HELP!) Man out on a limb as if he puts cherries on the big cherry tree. Ladder falls stranding him there. Cat now safely on the ground. GULP! Lounging lizard leans ever so slightly to left suddenly lunges fly, who had been annoying is...gulp...gone now. Hey...thanks pal! MY MONEY’S ON THE RED! Blue dragonfly...then red dragonfly...eye to eye two Sumo wrestlers fight it out on old pond cheered on by water boatmen. NO.1 FAN! Teams of dragonflies dressed in opposing colours battling it out on the old pond hoarse frog croaks their sole supporter. ANTS IN MY PANTS! Along this highway so much traffic back & forth just non-stop...ceaseless! Crawling over each other along this vine...ants...ants...ants! MY HEART IN HIDING! Peregrine falcon cuts across the morning as I gaze out to sea it’s perfection stunning me. Capri still asleep.