Happy Primate Blockade

They’re after ape language again.
And subversive self-awareness
in crocodile seniors.

They’re facing uprisings
in the finger-wagging streets,
their trademark wilderness.

Navy dolphins circle the Bronx
like ultra-right militias,
bespectacled, bald as mirrors.

--Lance Newman

P.W. BOTHA: 1916 - 2006
Iraq orders U.S. to end Sadr City blockade
Pachyderm perception is proved