Bedtime Story | Text of the Poem
Long long ago when the world was a wild place
Planted with bushes and people by apes, our
Mission Brigade was at work in the jungle.
Hard by the Congo
Once, when a foraging detail was active
Scouting for green-fly, it came on a grey man, the
Last living man, in the branch of a baobab
Stalking a monkey.
Earlier men had disposed of, for pleasure,
Creatures whose names we scarcely remember—
Zebra, rhinoceros, elephants, wart-hog,
Lion, rats, deer. But
After the wars had extinguished the cities
Only the wild ones were left, half-naked
Near the Equator: and here...
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