So lets have a bloody good go
At the crazies
The animal terrorist mob
Along with the lazies
Who sits on their arses
Upon their PC’s
Pontificating
And trying to seize
The moment when Cecil
And the Dentist took flight
Shot down the Lion
And scarpered al’right
Out of Zimbabwe like a dose of salts
Black mane and GPS collar
And warts
All this canned hunting palaver
It blew
The world and his brother
Knew what to do
Get hold of that Dentist
And give him a kick
Along with the hunters
Who make us all sick
Now 200 Lions are going to die
Shot by the canned hunting farm
And I sigh
That anyone thought its because
R Gervais
Who got Behind all of this
When he did say
The contracts in China
For Lion bones clearly
Are a lucrative business
Thats if you ask me
With everyone knowing canned hunting
Is sick
The brave ones are shaking in their boots
What dick
Wants to go through what Palmer went through
So with the cancelled bookings
Its seems others too
The harvests as they call them
Yes I hear groans
CHINESE Traditional Medicine bones
The Lion and the Tiger
Have remedial power
Most efficacious more so
Every hour
So lets turn it round
Get each animal saint
Out on the carpet
Lets try and paint
Some darkness and shading around them
So we
Can and get canned and our hunting will remain free
From all these weird wonders
The face book brigade
The tweeters the starlets
The whole shabby parade
He blames us all for
Whats happening there
In Zimbabwe the elephants
All in despair
There are too many
Blood needs to be spilled
And canned hunting farms
Supply Lions to be killed
The importance of commerce
For the locals who say
They need this wild meat
It pulls strings a way
More strings than we think
Us on our PC’s
Liking the claptrap
But it does displease
The conservationist hunters
Who know
Kill the animals more and more
Then numbers grow
But these arn’t commodities
they are created life
Each one a miracle
And appointed strife
Is totally the wrong way
To look at a beast
A blast from the past
Big game hunters
Feast
On the spoils
Ego hunting
Testicular freaks
The engine is full
But the bloody tank leaks
Leave Ricky Gervais alone
It will not do
Firing off salvo’s
Of arse swiping glue
It will not stick
For it isn’t true
We know its just bias
And We do what we do
Canned hunting stinks
Its a cruel nasty game
Enclosing the earthlings
They are bloody near tame
Drugged up to the eyeballs
And petted away
And then in a cage
Till someone does pay
Then its get out the guns boys
Our guarantee
Whatever you pay for
Of course you will see
The target is out there
The forms are all filled
Take aim Mr Hunter
blood needs to be spilled
My answer to JAMES DELINGPOLE’s article
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.
Spot on! Dear friend
Well said.. Poem.
Thank you Donna it had to be said as well I thought which is why. I said it.
I thought the sarcasm was disingenuous it actually trues to get to our hearts and it did, it was written in a kind of jovial type way but it felt to me oersonally like a swipe in my belly.
i cannot allow fickleness to slam into sincerity because at the end of the day the animals whom so manynof us love perish
Or are bred to die, miserable deaths so that arrogant phsychopaths can continue slaughtering them with impunity.
I was surprised also that Ricky Gervais had not responded to this warped piece so I had to
Thanks for coming to my blog because all those who did and who do help me continue with the work and the muse x
Thanks. Sara we cant let these shits get the better of us
We are the spirit not the gut wrenching bile
X
Breeding animals to be hunted? Not on. Hunting is for people who HAVE to for food and survival. Nothing else
Did you read my poem I was retorting from the article that was tweeted
Of course animals and hunting are as you said but there is much more to all this than that I can assure you
And if you read my blog under hunting and poaching you will see hundreds of poems there just on this subject
But thanks for writing without getting messages and appraisals I can go bonkers writing everyday
This story is getting everyone in a panic and there are some glaring misrepresentations of the truth (lets put it that way!) that I feel I need to correct.
There are headlines that mention “Cecil’s reserve” and “Cecil’s park” and that is incorrect. Bubye valley conservancy is many hundreds of kilometers from Hwange national park so the wild lions of Hwange are not in danger of being culled.
On that note, yes Bubye says that they have too many lions but I don’t believe for a second that they would cull lions.
We must understand the distinction here between a fenced reserve with no dispersal of excess lions, a high density of prey and no other source of human related mortality other than trophy hunting and an un-fenced area like Hwange. This is chalk and cheese!
Bubye is a hunting reserve and because lion hunting has recently been restricted there is a backlash against lions.
To say that there is a population explosion because of the “Cecil factor” is non-sense. Lions breed fast but not that fast!
To say that they are eating more prey because of the drought and the short grass means that the prey are in some way more vulnerable is non-sense. Lions need cover to ambush prey! If prey was easier to catch with less effort, the lions would be suffering from obesity.
I will say though that this story highlights a very serious issue in Lion conservation and that is the lack of space for lions in today’s Africa. Lions need vast areas of territory with abundant prey, where they won’t come into conflict with man and his livestock and these are few and far between.
We should all now be putting our innovative minds together and generating a ground-swell of support for lions. We need to secure their habitats and landscapes, not just for them but for the people who live with them, so that lions from a place like Bubye could be relocated as whole prides to repopulate suitable habitat or corridors between suitable areas are managed to allow dispersal to repopulate areas. It is going to be costly but can we afford to tun our backs when Lions need us most?
Brent Stapelkamp https://www.facebook.com/brent.stapelkamp/posts/752043808230032?hc_location=ufi
Thank you for your input its appreciated more especially on my blog
The poem was meant to offer my impressions and perhaps to generate
More debate thanks