Wall St., Main Street, and now the Zoo? <br />Could it be that the Bronx Zoo, a kind of an ark, ran aground, <br />Was Madoff at the helm not Noah? <br />People are being evicted, People are losing jobs, <br />Now animals are being evicted? <br />How does one evict an animal such as a dourocoulis? <br />Arabian Oryx? <br />Blesbok? <br />They not adoptable by urban standards. <br />What if Noah said “I can’t afford to feed these animals, throw them over board? ” <br />The Bronx Zoo is forced to evict some species, <br />In fact, the zoo's whole Rare Animal Range will soon go, <br />as will foxes, deer, and the guanaco, <br />(a relative to the llama) <br />But where are they going to place them? In foster zoos? <br />GM is sticking by their Impalas, (down-sized but they still here,) <br />Mercury had its Lynx’s <br />(not a studio technology company) <br />And it’s Cougars, <br />(not middle aged women getting their timing belts adjusted,) <br />And Dodge had its Colts, (not made in Indianapolis,) <br />And the Jaguars went ‘Tata’. <br />But ‘da’noive’* of the zoo, Lucky for me, <br />My wife, Judy, and I are far away from the Bronx Zoo, <br />Otherwise she would take all the ‘critters’ away, <br />She’s a kind of Elly May Clampett in her own way. <br /> <br />(* Bronxonian for ‘the nerve’) <br />(4-27-09)<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-s-a-zoo-out-there-economically-speaking/