Life Gorilla Poems

I met a gorilla on the bus today.
He was genuinely interested in what I had to say.
We talked weather, politics and life.
I spoke of my...

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Why am I here 
this isn't my home 
I do miss my mountain
and the trees where I'd roam 
and what of my family 
where have...

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Harambe, living in captivity-
mock forest of the Cincinnati Zoo,
within our human world, well as can be,
beneath those peering eyes, that visit you.

And what bad fate...

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I don’t know how a boy slipped down
And landed in a cage
Which housed a huge gorilla,
Prompting anger, grief and rage.

For when the ape then dragged...

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Countenance quite disturbing, in need of a file
happiness on the flee, one thousand and a mile
nothing to disguise
wrinkles grow in size
wild facial expression slapping a...

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A Gorilla Contemplates His Place in Life

By Elton Camp

Naught but a lowly monkey was me
Till along came brother Charles D

He said that it’s the fittest...

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I’m Kong the Gorilla, formerly of Africa,
but I now live in New York, in North America.
Carl Denham and his boys had to go and capture...

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