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Sir You Have Besmirched the Good Name of My Pangolin

Sir! You Have Besmirched the Good Name Of My Pangolin


Nothing can be the same now -
before the recent pandemic
my companion Pangolin
Boris and I,
were carefree,
and happily plying our trade
as chimney sweeps in Siberia,
but since the ‘great lie’
we dare not show our faces
in any town or city,
for they have labeled Boris; a good, kind,
not too gentle creature
as a SPREADER'!
O the calumny. the infamy the inaccuracy!
Now our only recourse
is to have him dress up as an Anteater
and move to Bolivia.

Copyright © Eric Ashford




Book: Shattered Sighs