Noah had a liking for the animals

So God chose him: (not for his righteousness).

Noah knew the smell of pigs, horse shit, dogs’ breath

liked lions’ roar, the forest’s cannibals!

The thousand geese in migratory throngs

the blinding stringency of kitty pee,

the hoots of ’rangatang and chimpanzee

God could do without, tuned more to angels songs.

God could not countenance the squawking crow,

or magpie, wicked thieves of other nests!

Creation didn’t work: no beast is blessed!

Each is another’s supper-on-the-go.

No gentle kingdom here: but fang and claw.

Forget the rainbow: life is in the raw.