<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426129" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Zoo's Closure</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The skirmishing is ended, Council Members<br>Have played their final, unconvincing act.<br>Each teller calls the tally, fair, exact.<br>Zoo fellows have – like Phoenix from its embers –<br>Opened up their spleen vents, each remembers –<br>Or thinks he does – how things stood once, reach<br>Schoolchildishly against the Council sacked.<br>Creative thinking’s absent. Each dismembers, <br>Looking backwards, far from chill Decembers, <br>Our ‘salad days’ [cheap fiction]! For the fact<br>Still stands that vital funding still is lacked.<br>Unluckily retrenchment waits. September’s<br>Requested General Meeting whets the sickle, <br>Entrapped is Council in its pretty pickle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(29 July 1992/Acrostic sonnet – The Zoo’s Closure)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=426129" data-title="The Zoo's Closure de Jonathan Robin" data-description="The skirmishing is ended, Council Members Have played their final, unconvincing act. Each teller calls the tally, fair, exact. Zoo fellows have – like Phoenix from its embers – Opened up their spleen vents, each remembers – Or thinks he does..."></div> </div> </div>

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