#253 - how much do we hate koalas in the state of New South Wales?

 

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how much do we hate koalas in the state of New South Wales?

 or

bugger off, Barilalo

 

more than the wallabies and the kangaroos!

more than wombats (their closest rels)!

more than the echidnas!

 

aside from blinky caramello

koalas are a pest and danger to themselves

 

with wings always somewhere else to fly

and tuck your tail under a rock

little liz

 

but koalas?

they’re not there

when I was looking

so everything’s alright

 

we want the trees for fire

for ash

to flatten the land with a crop

doesn’t matter which

but just the one

 

or a fast car squash

 

and one less stinky creature

none in person cute

koalas won’t get out of yr way

koalas aren’t even looking

 

but catching claws

feed them, you’ll get macrofauna

or SARS or something

koalas all carry COVID

everyone knows that

 

phylarctos plummetus fearful

 

and strip the leaves of their tree

 

stand up to the brutes

we have to be hairychested

and shirtfront

bleeding heart liberals

hate them more

black armband types

won’t understand the bush

 

they come in for some tap in the drought

mostly the lazy sods are asleep

all gummed up with leaf

 

once upon a time

when work made free

pelts on a cart to sell and tasty

make a soup of bones

 

though some say wrong to eat

but so many recipes on-line

have a look

 

and bad to hold

(that’s so correct)

they fill our kids’ cupboards

 

love them in zoos and national parks

(although we hate them of course)

 

do we hate them enough

to turf ourselves out?

bring a government down?

 

up a tree

down a hole

these are the basics of plot

 

when was the last time you saw one?

maybe they’re all already gone

bring in the dozers

we’ve got ‘em

otherwise tell me

what is the point (?)

 

we could build them a whole new outskirts suburb

keep a couple of gums for a deco

 

what do they want?

how do they vote?

where do we think they should live?

 

why do we have to keep footing the bill

why can’t they just clear out

to the koala reservation?

 

too many roos in the top paddock?

but this mob?

they’re not so good at getting off

no hop, no emu tear

none of that wombat cannonball capability

 

you’ve see them do the singed crawl over the burning tar?

those particular koalas were on fire

and that’s spectacular of them

 

I ask you

which part of extinction isn’t forever?

(trick question, yes)

 

it’s not hard though really

all you have to do is stop clearing

say – we’re enough

let a few trees back

let them be

say they were here before me

and this is koala land