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What Deserves to be Eternal?

What deserves the eternal?
Kindness to a lark.
When it sings sore with it
wherever you’re parked.

Understand the porcupine.
He was made that way.
Keep a distance from him.
Give him a pen to play.

Keep harmony with a frog.
See beyond looks and voice.
Answer him softly.
Lick your lips and be moist. 

Cave to the batty.
When they’re hanging up inside,
be Jiminy Cricket.
Chirp a little and hide.

Hurdle with the turtle.
Take your time and put him at ease.
But if he rolls over
give him a good hard squeeze.

Pull the giraffe’s tail.
When he’s reaching so high
tell him his neck’s amazing
for lions on the sly.

And for all those over-sized animals:
hippo, elephant and whale.
Featherless bipeds are lurking
to put you up for sale.

Or are we in migration  
from Monarch to Measles to Mite?
Then be kind. We’re a sensation!
Watch over us day and night.

Published in Poetry