Lions and tigers may be the kings of beasts, but they face common poverty in the Yangpu District Zoo. |
Here are penned beasts, goats and spotted cattle, swaying their streaming heads and watching me, ears flapping over woven withy walls. |
The humble person approaches ravening beasts, and when their gaze rests upon him, their wildness is tamed. |
She sees them as ravening beasts that will gnaw holes in the walls and use our credit cards when we aren't looking. |
Instead we should behave like lions, the kings of beasts, who finish up their food, rest thereafter and rebuild. |
What kind of animals, what kind of brute beasts have we created in this land? |