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Mind Of Nala, Escaped Lioness In Florida

A full grown lioness who escaped from Jungle Land, was spotted by helicopter today in a cypress swamp, by wildlife officials trying to recapture her, she was only about one hundred yards from the zoo, if we can be inside her for a moment, thinking we are surrounded by swamp, but the trees and rocks blocking our view are only wildlife corridors six foot deep, nature that seemed a little deserted on second thoughts, with the scent of petroleum at its wild centre, there is no mystery beyond this situation, I would prefer to be in captivity, where I dreamt of escape like the lioness, even if she had been hand raised, declawed and had become very sociable, she still found a way to slip out, into the promise of a swamp in Florida, her dream had come true, now she stood inside her discovery, it's when she spotted the helicopter that we knew her dreams had been delusions, that kept her fit and energetic for the public display, what do lions in their golden years think about with the bars locked into them?, her inner space, great tawny claw and thick saliva moving down through teeth like rivulets, what happened to the mind of Nala the escaped lioness, after she saw the helicopter?, was she shot to protect the public or simply dragged back into Jungle Land?, as all our hearts turned to gold and broke inside her muscular chest, they were all after her in a bid to make her face reality, the Deputies from the County Sheriffs Office, zoo employees, agents from Florida's Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission and Jungle Land's Marketing Director screeching, "she loves children!, she just loves children!," if only lions would allow kids to ride on their backs like donkeys and elephants do, but they donšt break the wild out of them so easily, lions don't become couches and sofas without a fight, without a poaching wild look in the sheer yellow eye, they are ready to find the way out, their defeat and breaking down in slow motion, it is a plan that takes a long time to initiate, it is a pain that takes me all my life to endure, for awhile the thick vegetation and swampy terrain made it impossible for the helicopter to reach her, Nala escaped the seven acre Jungle Land, into the cypress swamp that is surrounded by hotels, restaurants and expensive homes in a popular tourist area, each time she was sighted she slipped away silently into the lush vegetation that could have gone forever, at one time during her dreamscape, she was found simply pacing next to the fence enclosing the zoo, hours later she was back inside her cage or within range of the tranquiliser loaded dart gun, we all held our breath for the lioness, who was no longer visible from the air, knowing soon the helicopter would come to turn her into an amusement, we are relieved yet let down once she has safely taken her place back inside, once recaptured Nala knows better, beyond Florida's mini swamp is mini golf and suburbia, beyond our dreams is Jungle Land patrolled by a helicopter, and shešs captured again, but for a short time we travelled with her, a lioness who remained on the loose.





The Midnight Trailer

Police Department officers were alerted to a swaying trailer in a carpark behind a pick-up truck, it belonged to the Kings Royal Circus of Texas, according to officer Duffy Ryan, the wind wasn't enough to make it sway that much, hence the trailer became the great mystery of the city of Albuquerque, there was a man sitting in the truck that pulled the trailer, it was 120C and he was hot and bothered, he had probably forgotten to administer air that night for the animals, the night inside the trailer that is, outside it was past midday, officer Ryan told the driver, "that trailer is not made to carry anything with a heartbeat," inside the midnight trailer they discovered three Indian elephants and eight Alpacan lamas, one of the elephants was dead, after dark, groups of police, animal officials, and onlookers stood in the parking lot and tried to figure out what to do next, as the frightened animals that were still alive continued to rock the compartment, when an elephant dies, it feels like a wrecking ball has dropped straight through the heart, as though this central organ has expanded to adopt the consistency of cloud, it may have something to do with the absence that is created, there is huge stinking body to get rid of, like you were told to move your house to the end of the street, this giant absence aside from the body that is present, I guess people like to get rid of big corpses as soon as possible, but it is not so easy with an elephant or a giraffe, pieces of them are rotting on the ground all across Africa and India, in other countries they rot safely behind bars, or are bashed with bars to perform, or die out inside the midnight trailers, this decade is deciding their fate for them, there is sadness within the tiny death, but when it happens to an elephant, you think that is tremendous, you think that's it, kneel down and rub your forehead, that is a monumentous sad death, something monumentous has passed from the earth, or in zoos when an elephant sways you think, something monumentous has gone psychotic, or something monumentous has broken through its enclosure and is stamping the crowds to death in the circus arena, the ringmaster with the whip or the cruel elephant trainer is the first to go, the elephants eye is as big as your palm, take a look into your palm, an eye of a captive elephant that big and insane, is something to steer clear of, it's like the source of an alpine stream has suddenly turned odd, and that if the water fails at its source, you will go mad if you drink it, an elephant has suffocated inside the eternal night of a circus trailer, the valley is hurting, a mountain has been collapsed for no reason.