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Ihar Kazak

Call it class warfare,

He challenged the boisterous bullfrogs,

But common sense

In the Animal Kingdom shall prevail.

He urged that turtles and doves

Not to be considered less worthy

Than the birds-of-prey.

He thus explained.

Even one of them agreed

With him

And sent his dove

To attend the Animals’ Congress.

Hard work and responsibilities

Are to be heeded, he said.

But the Kingdom

Shall offer the worthy its assistance.

There are some kingdoms, he observed,

Not deserving the clubs and spears,

Which only but the Select can have.

But peaceful resolutions still exist, he implied.

Racoons and other conflict-of-interest scavengers

Are to be reprimanded

And nest-owners

Shall get up to three thousand Thalers in aid.

Hyenas were forewarned

To cease their crass financial fraud & mortgages

To this, he added, prosecutor-foxes shall

Thoroughly investigate abusive lending.

Instead of fighting wars

With distant kingdoms

The Leader of this Empire

Proposed to use half of the Thalers

To rebuild this Animal Kingdom,

Create more jobs & competitiveness

While the other half of Thalers

Is to pay off

The mounting debt with

The Middle Animal Kingdom.

And regulations are to be formed

To thus protect the animals

As needed, the Leader insisted,

To which a clamorous

(but hardly glamorous)

Commotion ensued

With flatulent response

By the ever-vigilant bullfrogs.

But the Kingdom’s Leader insisted:

No bailouts, no handouts top-to-bottom.

To this the bullfrogs responded:

Our Leader has sold out

To the socialist baboons,

Oy vey!

The Lion, though, was adamant & firm

The Kingdom is a democracy and not a firm,

And common sense shall thus prevail,

While the excesses of the bullfrogs one must curtail.