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dumb animal
a donkey
pushes a girl
down the road
away from a car
which lies upside-down
in the ditch
radio still playing
the girl is weeping
helplessly
but the donkey does not stop
pushes her with his nose
until she stumbles
and falls
i am six years old
watching from our car
as the medic picks up the girl
and puts her in the ambulance
and now 1 wonder
if a donkey
can care enough or know
to save an injured girl
pushing her for some reason
perhaps how he would
another donkey, not letting her
go down
to be taken
by the wolves
or was this cruelty
making fun of something
less fortunate
the way young boys
tear the legs off frogs
and laugh?
or something else
so dark and unconcious
there is no logic
but an undefined twist of energy
that keeps falling down
a black hole.
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