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Thyacine
Tasmanian tiger
Tasmanian wolf

carnivorous marsupial
kept young in pouch
native to Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea

Thyacine is to Australia
What Sasquatch is to North America
Been sighted but not recently penned or captured

Sasquatch might be a myth
Thyacine only went extinct eighty-seven years ago
in 1936...

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Categories: tasmanian tiger, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Tasmanian Tiger
The Tasmanian tiger 

 The last one died in captivity in 1936
 and that was a sad moment for humanity,
added to the list of animals we have eliminated over the years.
The Tasmanian tiger was easy to kill. It didn´t know
how cruel we are.
There have been...

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Categories: tasmanian tiger, absence, confusion,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things