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FABLE OF GEORGE THE NASTY ELEPHANT & BARRACK THE JACKASS
United States of Animals

by mobasher sharif


Once upon a time in the United States of Animals

There lived George and Barrack: two super animals

Barrack was the king of the whole animal kingdom

And George was the son of a navy man,

Barrack was also the chief donkey of his tribe

And so was George the head elephant of his sire.



Barrack the donkey was ruling for over 180 days

Spreading the gospel of peace, prosperity, love and fate

Surveying the universe on his 747 flying mate.



These times were quite restless times

Though big donkeys and fat cats were fine

Dining each night on honey and wine

Everything looked good fairly calm and good

But there was a catch-22 in all this

Because a lot of little animals were being hit
Of hunger, poverty, unemployment and other shit.



George the jackass from the prairie one day

Came to a galloping halt one day and jealously grunted:

“The animal kingom of the USA

Needs a change of leaders after eight years of wait”.

The son of the navy man kicked around a lot

Finally grunting: “Elect me … the Elephant McGovernment of all”.

And all the elephants cunningly laughed and had a ball.



“Look at the facts”, the elephant grunted

“The elephant talks about peace betray

For there is no peace still today”.

He talks of prosperity but over a bazzillion …

over a bazzillion animals are unemployed in abundance.

He boasts of about good times, though

Mice are paying twenty percent more for the dough.

He promises to bring together wolves and lambs.

Even the tigers are scared to go out

Into the forest after dark-outs.



“Listen to the donkey", the elephant charged,

“I won’t reply to his rubbish talks”.

But let me make this perfectly clear to all:

Who made peace with the Bear’s kingdom?

Who flew around the length and breadth of our kingdom?

Who tamed the filthy blood-thirsty dragons?

Who rescued half-a-million Bobs and Toms

By rescuing them from the desserts of Iraq and Afghanistan?



Fellow elephants grunted waving their trunks:

“Eight more years to George!”

The pack joined in and started grunting:

“Eight more years to Cindy and George!”

The bears and dragons swished their tails:

“Sixteen more years to Cindy and George!”



“I have been kicked around by the donkeys,”

The number one elephants grunted shyly.

“They chatter against me in the dark nights.”

On the forest trees they write and practice graffiti.

But, reminded he, “I have long nose and big ears

And the elephant remembers what he sees and hears.”



All the bears gobbling cheap wheat roared:

“Eight more years right now!”

Fat cats dining on lamb chops burped

“TWELVE MORE YEARS WOW!”



The donkey threw his trunk over one tusk

Wiped the TV makeup to impress other animals;

“I don’t say everything is perfectly clear

(In my animal kingdom).

I have seen long-haired dogs in poppy patch;

I have seen the roosters chasing chicks for hash

And even chicks chasing other chicks for a nickel of grass;

I have also seen crime and unemployment surpassed.

But the number one elephant’s grunts continued:

“These are not important things to be reviewed.

All animals must learn in my vast kingdom

See things as the elephant sees them …

If they are hungry they must also

Remember that most animals are not;

If they are old or sick they must also

Remember that most animals are not;

The wolves may be eating lambs though

But the rate of lamb-eating has gone down also …

(Full one tenths of one percent uptill now)

King George … the elephant’s trunk flounted:

“It is the generality of things that must be counted”.

On hearing this some wild horses neighed:

“SIXTEEN MORE YEARS TO CINDY AND GEORGE”.

And when King George threw the final challenge:

“Who can match all my accomplishments?”

Even more doves and hawks together sang:

“God save King George and Sara Palin”.



“I can match his accomplishments,” brayed the jackass,

“The elephant remembers only some of his past.”

A hungry doe can’t eat the gross animal productivity;

A lamb in the claws of a wolf cannot be happy

By the declining rate of wolf’s avidity;

The lamb has to think of decline in its’ own productivity”.



And the forest air echoed with monkey’s chants:

RIGHT ON BARACK!” and “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!”.



Obama the jackass --- son of a Kenyan man

Continued his grunts at the top of his lungs:



"Any elephant knows what George told us all …

The elephant has tricked us”, accused the donkey,

“He covers up his blunders with trickery and witchcraft;

He works in collusion with bugs on our tribe;

He makes deals with bears at the expense of our appetite”



"The survival of the fittest has been replaced

By the triumph of the trickiest in our beloved place”.

And the number one jackass reminded the fellow casts

“The kingdom needs a good honest clumsy jackass.

Elect me --- Super Animal … the greatest jackass.”



But the snakes hissed and the bears growled

The fat cats grinned and the wolves prowled.

Most of the animals cheered the elephant merrily:

TWENTY MORE YEARS OF KING GEORGE’S TRICKERY!

The jackal’s howl echoed throughout the kingdom!”

“FORTY MORE YEARS TO BARRACK OBAMA!”.

The jackass grinned and winked in hallucination!!!



Some parrots and monkeys wept and acted said:

“Four more years to Barrack the Jackass!”.



But the zoologists blinked with shock and frustration:

“TRUTH IS INDEED MUCH STRANGER THAN FICTION!”