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100 Ways to Make a Llama Dizzy

For DK Shepard's Keep It 100 Challenge

By Paul StewartPublished 2 years ago • 1 min read
Close-up of a leopard at Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes By Marie-Lan Nguyen - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1333475

100 ways to make a llama dizzy?

Curious? Tipping it upside down

Maybe blindfolding it, changing its environment

From South Australia to Scotland

So was I, until I started thinking

and felt my mind wander,

and remembered

the shocking, disgusting truth

about the beautiful Amur Leopards

there are only roughly one hundred

still living in the wild

then forgot about the llamas and dizziness—

all I could feel was the blind rage,

the desire for 100 ways to make

loggers, hunters, industrial businessowners, and farmers

pay a weighty price... for cutting the majestic beast

to almost extinction like its majesty was nothing

There is no excuse, justification, and yet no recompense

Dished out to those deserving

like an unrelenting, fierce storm.

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Thanks for reading!

Author's Notes: 125 words. Sorry not sorry for content. This is for DK Shepard's amazing "Keep it 100 Challenge".

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Paul Stewart

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