Poetic Licence
Trouble with Mink Illustration: Michael Heath
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Your support makes all the difference.Five thousand Mustelidae
Or mink (Mustela vison)
A type of stoat
Prized for its coat
Were languishing in prison
When came a kindly zealot
Self-righteous in compassion
Saying: `All are free
You shall not be
A sacrifice to fashion.'
A spokesmink for the martens
Said: `That's a bit of luck.
Well, thanks a bunch
We must do lunch!'
And promptly killed a duck
Before the horde hit Hampshire
To vent their fearful habits
On water rats
Domestic cats
The fish, the fowl and rabbits
These creatures held a meeting
In mood less than delirious
Which badger chaired
Opinions aired
Included: `This is serious
These mobile stoles are starving
And nothing makes them scared
The soccer thugs
On booze and drugs
Are Ladyboys compared.'
`Who freed them?' asked a squirrel.
`Some idiot,' said Badger
`Who gets ideas
So it appears
From tugging at his tadger
Whose noble act will lead to
Our future situation
That final breath
Which we call death
But he calls liberation.'
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