THREATENED SPECIES

The lion

The panda

The jaguar

Pacific walrus

Siberian tiger

Manatee

Wolverine

Albatross

Blue whale

And snow leopard

Are species

Marked for extinction.

But none

Have been threatened with that end complete

Longer than

They which are

Scattered,

Feared,

Captured,

Shunned,

Caged in record numbers,

Made to move from place to place,

Live in dirty, squalid areas,

Eat poorly,

Self-loathing,

Self-killing,

Called all the worst names

And built from the ground up

Great cities

While in leg-irons & chains.

 

They are unmistakably African, in look & origin.

 

This species

Doesn’t get listed with other

Threatened kinds. They get no such recognition.

Perpetual prey

In the hunt that’s always on

With or without guns.

 

[ The same can be said

  For a similar breed

  With lower numbers

  Whose native habitat