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Ode to Wild Boars 
    

 


Boars are wonderful, boars are cool,
in every field the wild boars rule.
I love their tusks, I love their smile,
I love the way they walk in file.
If running from them, I should slip,
and they would bite me, slash and rip,
I’d know that such a glorious death
would fill with bliss my final breath.

   


The Wildschwein loves the copious field
where he from hostile eyes can shield.
If dogs him track, with howl and bark,
the boar makes sure their end is stark:
When he in hiding hears them bell
he rushes out and gives them hell.
He cuts them up with shaking head,
till he in scattered guts can tread.


O, porcine heroes! I could weep
as I, in restless, envious sleep
your lovely, bristly, horrent frames,
so sexy to all Wildschwein dames,
do covet: O, to be a swine
and have a sense of smell so fine
that I, despite my personal scent
the hunter finds whose ammo’s spent.


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