The Holiday Table
The pièce de résistance
roast beast
well not really roast beast
the beasts were extinct long since
well not really extinct
but the two zoo specimens were not available
Sculpted tofu resembled the beast
in every particular
forelimbs folded demurely beneath
a huge fat torso
sagging neck
spheroidal head
four pairs of tusks
not strictly accurate
the beast didn't have four pairs
no tusks at all really
but the children loved them so
and after what they did to the planet
they deserved to be mocked
as well as eated
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