Christmas in Sumatra:
Apes have paper hats,
Smearing brandy butter
On a sacrificial cat.
Tiger’s licking envelopes,
Addressing to his Nan,
Tapir’s wrapped,
Gold-paper trapped:
Struggling in the sand.
They sit down to their noon repast
Suddenly: a shotgun blast!
Santa dressed in khaki coat
Buckshot-blasts Bear’s arse.
Leopard pulls his hunting knife
Vanishes in trees.
Santa range-finds ‘rangutan;
Trigger softly squeezed:
BOOM!
He parts the Ape & face,
It floats off in the breeze.
Leaping from the undergrowth:
Leopard shivs his knees.
Suddenly the cops appear,
Handcuffing the big cat,
“Santa’s more endangered lad,
You’re really in the shat.”
~ Leland Velociraptor, 2013
