THERE ARE NO BERRIES
AND THE BEARS ARE STARVING
Every day
there are heat advisories
now
and the bears are starving.
Two days ago
at the Elkmont Campground
a bear crawled into a tent
and mauled a mother and her three-year-old
child.
They say
it went for their faces.
The rangers tracked him down and killed him.
Today
an old lady in Sevierville was attacked
by a black bear.
The police tracked him down and killed him.
Underground
it must be cooler.
Underground
there is no hunger.
A young black bear has been wrecking my bird feeder lately. Last week it got into a metal can holding a bag of sunflower seeds. The bag and the pitcher I used to fill the feeder are gone for good, as is one of the bird feeders. The wildlife people advised me to let nature take its course. They won’t come and trap the bear. Nature? Is a human being with a shotgun natural? Nah, hey, I wouldn’t hurt the bear; but I wish it would go away. Not only that, but a raccoon has figured out how to grab a hummingbird feeder and quaff the sweet water. (I solved that problem today, and the coon will now need much longer limbs to get to the feeder.
FISHERMAN, n. : a man who prides himself on being smarter than a fish — DDR
There is a truth among the animals. Wonder how many human animals are capable of seeing it for what it is?