{"id":45558,"date":"2020-04-20T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=45558"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:57:22","slug":"phuket-zoo-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/04\/phuket-zoo-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"PHUKET ZOO  Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand should be ashamed of itself<br \/>\nFor what\u2019s happening right here<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called a zoo<br \/>\nBut the view<br \/>\nIs anything but clear<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a nothingness of caring<br \/>\nIt\u2019s baseless and unreal<br \/>\nThe animals are all prisoners<br \/>\nThey are trying to conceal<\/p>\n<p>Not a whit or jot of care<br \/>\nIt\u2019s awful  to perceive<br \/>\nIt\u2019s meagre and it\u2019s sparseness<br \/>\nIt\u2019s so hard to believe<br \/>\nThat animals could die treated<br \/>\nIn such an appalling way<br \/>\nThe chaos and disorder<br \/>\nThe disharmony at play<br \/>\nUndisciplined and unruly<br \/>\nIt\u2019s exhausting just to be<br \/>\nPaying for the weakness and the vulnerability<\/p>\n<p>All the animals are suffering<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a darkness everywhere<br \/>\nThey are unlikely to be happy<br \/>\nWhat is certain is their despair<br \/>\nContrary to reason<br \/>\nUntenable and unsound<br \/>\nYou can witness the poor judgement<br \/>\nAnd the injustice all around<br \/>\nThe ignorance is in your face<br \/>\nComplete uncertainty<br \/>\nUnknowing and unaware<br \/>\nStrangers they can see<\/p>\n<p>The unenlightened  the empty headed<br \/>\nThe indifference that we see<br \/>\nThe animals the boredom<br \/>\nThe bone heads seemingly<br \/>\nAs asinine as any<br \/>\nAs infantile as some<br \/>\nShort sighted and thoughtless<br \/>\nAnd incredibly so dumb<\/p>\n<p>I look at all the animals<br \/>\nGlaring back at me<br \/>\nTheir eyes are swollen and deep set<br \/>\nFor all the world to see<br \/>\nTheir frustration and their bafflement<br \/>\nUnfulfilled and sad<br \/>\nThwarted Baulked and crest fallen<br \/>\nAnd many going mad<\/p>\n<p>Life has lost its meaning<br \/>\nThey have lost it figuratively<br \/>\nEmphatic with their protest<br \/>\nWith the negativity<br \/>\nThe treachery one feels it<br \/>\nAnd the mendacity<br \/>\nWhat is the double dealing<br \/>\nIt\u2019s their catastrophe<\/p>\n<p>Suffering the filth the lack of<br \/>\nHope it\u2019s everywhere<br \/>\nThe trickery the  dupery<br \/>\nThat all of them do share<br \/>\nTokenism make believe<br \/>\nA mockery of sorts<br \/>\nFraudulent and guileful<br \/>\nPlaying with their thoughts<\/p>\n<p>It should have been closed down<br \/>\nYears and years ago<br \/>\nPeta has been voicing their concern<br \/>\nThe world did know<br \/>\nThe misrepresentation<br \/>\nThe perversion everywhere<br \/>\nThe nomenclature where nothing<br \/>\nWhere nobody does care<\/p>\n<p>They torture and they starve us<br \/>\nIn a barbarous atmosphere<br \/>\nWe are choking they are poking<br \/>\nWe are broken can\u2019t you hear<br \/>\nYour unwillingness to notice us<br \/>\nYour rejection of us pains<br \/>\nIndisposed and reluctant<br \/>\nIt\u2019s bubbling through our veins<\/p>\n<p>Each of us is dying<br \/>\nWhat endurance once we had<br \/>\nBroken by the iniquity<br \/>\nThe angst we are all sad<br \/>\nIt\u2019s shameful what they do to us<br \/>\nWhen visitors are gone<br \/>\nIn pursuit of profit<br \/>\nWe exist upon<br \/>\nAn undernourished interval<br \/>\nSpurned all of our days<br \/>\nTheir grossness and their rottenness<br \/>\nTheir hurtfulness some praise<br \/>\nIt\u2019s buttock clenchingly  awful<br \/>\nWe cannot go on like this<br \/>\nScruffy and bedraggled<br \/>\nOur lives are never bliss<\/p>\n<p>Our throats are drenched in mucous<br \/>\nWhen we defecate we bleed<br \/>\nStain and crud is everywhere<br \/>\nNone of us succeed<br \/>\nIt\u2019s gritty and it\u2019s manky and it\u2019s shitty<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s wrong<br \/>\nAnd everyone existing here<br \/>\nKnows in our hearts we do not belong<\/p>\n<p>Thailand best consider<br \/>\nThe torment that is here<br \/>\nThe dysfunction and the illnesses<br \/>\nThe terrible diarrhoea<br \/>\nThe infective the germ laden<br \/>\nThe festering nightmare<br \/>\nThis shit hole of a living space<br \/>\nWhere body does care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thailand should be ashamed of itself For what\u2019s happening right here It\u2019s called a zoo But the view Is anything but clear It\u2019s a nothingness of caring It\u2019s baseless and unreal The animals are all prisoners They are trying to &hellip; 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