Write a hardship poem.
Western Black Rhino
You don't even know what keratin is
Or that they could just chew their goddamned fingernails and
could get a magnificent hard on
if the science worked.
You are upside down
tied your wrinkled ankles
Flying upside down like a new creature
(because the world will need one)
high, high, calm
the sun setting below
the clouds below
dreamlike
the flamingos in a lake above
the route taken above
winding back
and back in time
if you weren't too dead to see it.
Last
Last of
Last
Last
The very last one.
Shavings from your horn worth more
per gram
than cocaine, poolside in Abu Dhabi.
Is this a hardship?
One day in the papers.
DNA lost to infinite time,
infinite space,
unravelling sequence of this
this brute beast
- sometimes agressive
Upside down now
To be raped in death
horned ground to a powder
for an exorcism or
to ease
a modern headache
at least one final headache
eased
at least one little man who feels tonight
like a man
like a big one
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