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Lion Suit

Dreamed 1987/5/4 by Wayan

A movie series. Erroll Flynn
Stars as a private eye. But in
the first film enemies and friends
always call him Lion.

For so he is--though sparingly--
His resting state's humanity--
Only goes feline if and when
Work needs teeth and claws.

But by the second film, he's all
lion (though his fellow stars
act as if still human). Wears
a head with great sad eyes

of leonine solemnity
--huge moon-spectacles--oh
utterly unmistakably
the Cowardly Lion of Oz.

Not the film beast, old Bert Lahr's
extroverted clown--the shy,
practical original
conceived by L. Frank Baum.

Wake and read the news at dawn:
furry sit-ins in the state
capital--"Don't let men shoot
endangered mountain lions."

Sacramento is aflood
in lion suits! Defiant pride
eared and tailed and furred...
Seems my dream-ears heard.

Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.
JUST TO BE CLEAR

That day, protestors in lion suits staged a sit-in at the California Department of Fish and Game in Sacramento, since it decided to allow trophy hunting of mountain lions, simply declaring them "not endangered" based on fantasy numbers--they're so shy the population's hard to count. Except, apparently, by ESP.



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