The rainforests are extensive
a wilderness of trees
branches inter twining
its the same reprise
we hear it and we feel it
the monkeys feel it too
complex social groups
that do what these groups
always do
care for one another
but sadly, what we see
is around 3000 captured
every year
consigned to be
taken from their feral state
and shipped into the town
and in the human squalor
many of them drown.
for its there that abject torture
becomes their way of life
6 months training
made to walk
like humans
all that strife
of being tied, their head upright
their hands behind their backs
stretched and stressed
torture at best
these the awful facts
most of them are babies
they are sold off to
research clinics
in universities
and of course they do
test on them
more torture
more evil
its the case
that the most evil
sods on earth
comes from the human race
other are sold as pets
many die a death
the rest they do the training
and then each and every breath
is on the street low down
where cars pump out
the lead and smoke
they breathe this muck
into their lungs
which really is no joke
dressing them in dolls clothes
they wander here and there
breathing in the particulates
in the polluted air
they dance do tricks
ride mini motor
bikes
for tourists who
apparently are fascinated
by what monkeys do
they cannot see beyond
their noses
at the torture and the pain
for 5 to 10 years they do this
over and over again
when they will become aggressive
and be sold to restaurants who
sell the exotic meats on
to customers who do
pay the highest prices
for monkey meat and they
were the most unfortunate
creatures anyway
JAAN an organisation
wants to ratify
the laws to stop this happening
and to rescue and defy
those traders and those people
who trap these monkeys
and
rescue them and send them back
to an a big island
where they can get back to their roots
not ply the streets in town
they can form their social groups
and not in our squalor drown