<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sloth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her back is an ecosystem,<br>algaeic and wrapped<br>beneath a canopy’s sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arms forever up and out<br>above her head—she is <br>this tall. No height,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">no dangers below,<br>will blanch the beast; <br>she sees no fear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fall will seldom kill her.<br>Nun ordained to pliancy, <br>she’s slowness made devotion. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The monkeys run <br>right by her, skitter-shows <br>their onus; harpy hawks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with sudden plucks<br>plunge, their hunger flown. <br>It is true she cannot walk</div><div style="margin:10px 0">—when basic need or poor luck<br>grounds her, she’ll have to <br>pull herself along the muck</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of forest floor. So she hangs, <br>even after life, from branches, <br>fool-like, face to sky,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">her backward-growing <br>coat a woolish habit. <br>Even at the tops</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of trees, she blends in. <br>She is cool, and shy seeming;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her cry’s a sure ai, ai.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=C.J.+Sage">C.J. Sage</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353692" data-title="The Sloth de C.J. Sage" data-description="Her back is an ecosystem, algaeic and wrapped beneath a canopy’s sun. Arms forever up and out above her head—she is this tall. No height, no dangers below, will blanch the beast; she sees no fear. A fall will seldom kill her. Nun ordained..."></div> </div> </div>

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