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.
a man orangutan
russet, big, robust
hunkers behind a tree
in a river in Borneo
having furtively crossed
—furtively because he knows Man men
who tread the earth with jackboots
rule these parts ruthlessly
and have little mercy for his kind
have little mercy
have cut themselves from Mother
with the sharpened edge of dollars
cut themselves with
little mercy
Jim Culleny
12/16/17
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Photograph by Jayaprakash Joghee Bojan, 2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
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