Peacocks strut their power-play feathers to get some hammy.
Flamingos strain pink shrimp, always eating with beaks open.
Hummingbirds say, “Give me some sugar baby.”

Paramecium make slipper sandwiches in yin-yang love.
Flat worms confess, “You’re my favorite host so
I’ll swallow your soul… and the cookies you just ate.”

Kudus horn-stab plants for dessert, easy peasy.
Gazelles bounce over rivers like a giant slinky 
to avoid voracious crocodile appetites.

Hungry, hungry hippos, wear tutus, and eat pond veggies,
wiggling their little ears.
Rhinos are gentle, eating grass and the alarm birds have his back. 

Gorillas eat lice with their sausage fingers.
Lemurs open big eyes to find throwing-fruit.

Wallabies wish to be invited to a kangaroo dinner,
and koalas watch the fray from tasty eucalyptus heights.

Lemmings look for cheese, but blindly commit clifficide.
Chinchillas love volcanic ash more than Chilean berries.

Humpback whales adore sardines and krill,
swimming to change the TV set that is ocean’s reality.
Dolphins trust us too much as we steal their tuna, so
why do they bother to rescue us? They’re not jaded.

Elephants sample bark and roots, but their favorite is wild fruit,
beyond the reach of man…their own proboscis ladder.
Their cousins released from circus torture now roam as a herd
in a preserve, full of natural munchings.

Lions wait until brunch to wake up.
Jaguars climb thick trees to pounce on a tapir for a snack.

But humans?
Do we merely take for the sake of taking?
Has killing for us become just killing?
Perhaps we no longer have the luxury or right to look away…
extinction is around the corner.