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Tricks

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Silly rabbit

Bear of little brain

Ferdinand

Under the cork tree

Where

There are

Redolent flowers

Where Ferdinand

Redoles

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Dog flying plane

On  doghouse

Cat invested

In lasagna

The animals know

We craft

Their knowing

Franciscan-relegated

Wisdom

Preaching to birds

Who listen

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The cardinals who

Live red

The ravens who laugh

Black

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To all the lower

Creatures

Who act better

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One virtue

Per species,

Each an exemplar

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While we have

Way too many

Too complex a menagerie

Made

Of excuses

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The stolid thing

We offer

Maybe we imagine

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Photo by Marco Biondi on Unsplash

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