Aardvark

And there he is again,

on the very first page of

every Merriam-Webster,

the top of the list of

Animalia,

the Everest of his kind;

Aaron, if he were human,

dismissing as jealousy

his rivals’ cry of “cheat,”

that the double A

is so superfluous,

he’s no transistor battery

or city on the Danish coast;

and if he could scream,

a pirate’s aargh!

as if on a ship of stolen

gold, strutting haughtily, as though

he’d a mane of the same colour,

asking disdainfully, just WHO

is the King of beasts?

Andreas Gripp

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