small is good

 Small is good
There are not many big elephants left on the savannah
Near the houses where I live elephants are a bit smaller
nature did this for them to survive big game hunters
like kings, who think killing big animals is masculine
like having a secret mistress, but not too concealed
because if no one knows, why bother?
The small elephants that have yet to get a Latin name
like Loxdonta africana, have a tiny tusk not bigger than
than a bull's horn and feet too tiny to be made into an umbrella holder, but are sweeter looking, smell sweet, and have adorable eyes, their ears the size a dog's
flapping when the wind is strong.
Why should I care for the well-being of animals when
so many humans, like in Gaza have bombs thrown onto
their homes killing the children who like the elephants near my house only think of playing truants and eat
slices of bread with sugar on.
The Palestine people could have done as my elephants did, be docile to the people who destroyed their homes
be picturesque, when begging for food at the wayside
But no, they insist on getting their Savannah and as a result of this stubborn attitude only have themselves to blame when Nakba happens