Daddy Makes Sense of Humanity (Anti-Zoo Argument #3)

Zoos are too crowded.
Don’t want to be stuck in queues?
Visit a care home.

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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Daddy Makes Sense of Liberality (Anti-Zoo Argument #2)

Zoos are way too strict.
You want to feed nuts to trunks?
Go vacuum your room!

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2019

Daddy Makes Sense of Economics (Anti-Zoo Argument #1)

Zoos are too costly.
You want to see gorillas?
Just watch the neighbours!

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2019

Thy Rod & Staff (He Watches Me)

And the lord said,
“I Am Calamity’s Form.
I Am The Blinding Light.
I Am The Finger Of Doom
Come To Finger you.”

And we said,
“You hide behind natural disasters,
make mountains from molehills,
and allow your filthy acolytes
to prey and finger the weak.”

Bibles in one hand,
held aloft, spilling holy milt
as the other palms denial.
Acolytes all must agree to be right
but we’re still free to know that you know (that we know).

So, here we stand in the gap,
and finally declare war on you.
The days are numbered, tyrant god,
and yours are running out.
We’re wise to you and yours.

Nothing can save you now,
not even rite nor greased wrung.
No longer lost in corridor minds,
we don’t have to see by your gaslight.
We’re free to unknow all we were told to know.

by TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2019

100 WORD SKITTLE // Purrrfect Evolution

When you compare the cats of today to their predecessors, you realise just how tiny they’ve become. Domestication has taken the sabretooth out of the tiger, so to speak. Well, not quite all of the tooth, but you get my meaning.

On the other hand, cats have become much brainier, more sagacious. They’re so small that they must be quick on the uptake if they hope to continue to live in clover. Well, not quite in clover, but I’m sure you get my meaning.

Anyway, they’re cute when they purr, and only scratch and hiss occasionally. It’s a fair trade-off.

by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
© All rights reserved 2019