Red Fox Terrorizes Humans in US Capitol Rampage
—Voice of America English News
I find the headline overwrought, don’t you?
They say I’m terrorizing?
I won’t sit here and deny
my natural tendencies,
but at least I engage
in necessary brutality.
I know you’re uncomfortable
with the squirrel crushed
between my jaws,
but I only bare my teeth to protect
what’s mine by blood.
After all, it wasn’t my depravity
that stoked God’s wrath
into an inferno only a flood
could quench.
He prioritized my kind
when he started over.
Many of you wonder
when the second destruction
will come.
I think it’s already here.
Your children die
in bullet strewn classrooms
and refrigerated trucks hulk
behind morgues.
Kindergarten sandboxes are converted
into graves
while mothers scribble
their babies’ names upon their backs
to better identify them.
It is said you bear the face
of God,
so I am assured beauty will spring
from your ashes.
Imagine the air perfumed
with the hymns of wood thrushes
and tree frogs.
Imagine the fields adorned
with only a thousand lilies.
Imagine the night unfurling
beneath an ocean of blazing stars.
