Tuesday, 13 June 2023

bristol zoo has closed

 bristol zoo has closed


they closed the zoo where the children went

the elephant rides past the high tea tent


white tigers bored with an occasional growl

sent everyone backwards with a terrible howl


monkeys doing what monkeys do

oh why did they close dear old bristol zoo


who will feed the slippery fish to the shiny seals

or give the penguins their daily meals


who will close the double doors

to the butterfly house in its coloured clothes


and who will crawl through the insect house

stare at the warm rocks and the creepy louse


and the reptile house is hotter still

the flickering tongues on the black anvil


and prairie dogs laughing their bald heads off

dusty flats caps to everyone doff


craning our necks to see the giraffes some more

stooping to see them leave by the lowly door


elephant house with huge mounds of dung

drying and as anal retentive as old carl jung 


school trips they called excursions when we went to see

all the animals from a to z


but never no more will the days be complete

for all the animals are finally exeat 


take home your buns and take home your kids

they have locked the gates they closed the lids


just one lonely sign on the top of a wall

all there is to show it was ever there at all

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