Donal Mahoney- A Poem

Cecil the Lion, R.I.P.

We know the story about

Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe 

killed by an American dentist 

who paid a guide to find him 

a lion he could kill

with a bow and arrow.

The guide lured Cecil, a lion, 

off a wildlife preserve, using

the stench of a dead animal 

roped to the top of his vehicle. 

The dentist’s arrow wounded 

Cecil but it took hours to locate 

the lion and kill him with a rifle.

No word yet as to whether Cecil’s

heart, brains and liver were shipped 

the way a Planned Parenthood staffer 

said her New York agency ships 

smaller hearts, brains and livers.