Last night I dreamed that all animals (except humans) had suddenly evolved the concept of parkour.
As a result, governments, the world over decided that animals were evolving, thinking beings and therefore were no long allowed to be eaten or held in captivity.
The results were alarming and astounding.
The entire world changed.
The world was a lot less safe for humans.
Standing at the bus stop, a horse comes clip-clopping along at full-speed and runs sideways off a telephone pole, never breaking stride.
Everyone is stunned.
As I walk down my street, lions, one-up one another off parked cars, making them almost useless to their owners.
It's beautiful, but it kinda freaks me out.
Also, I really liked that car.
Nearby, a giraffe does a running flip over a fence and nearly crushes a group of construction workers.
They are speechless.
The people are scared and productivity slows.
Politicians scurry to pass laws protecting humans from these new ultra-aggressive athletes and as the animals had no care or concept of law, the legislation passes through unabated.
And soon I am seeing animals getting arrested and forced to go to the zoo, having no understanding of the machine that they are caught up in
I can't help but think that the humans are the problem.
And I am not alone..
Tens of thousands march..
We scream and cry and make up chants and make signs
We demand JUSTICE!!
You cannot lock up our citizens just for being THEMSELVES!!
You can not put them in a place called THE ZOO!!!
So politicians change the name to something that sounds more pleasant...
Animal Recreation Centers or ARCs...yeah that seems like a good place for animals.
And they hide the facilities so we don't have to feel bad or think about it.
"Did you hear about what happened to Bingo?"
"He's doing 2-5 out on the ARC for knocking some lady's Starbucks out of her hand."
"Some time on the ARC will do him good. Calm his ass down."
There are fat men on the radio and skinny men on TV...
Saying that animals are a nuisance and we should all start eating them again.
And the whole eating thing is embarrassing to some of us.
We wish THAT never happened and we have a lot of human-guilt about it.
We wear a lot of shirts bragging about our veganism...
And hope the animals evolve the ability to read at some point..
And some of us still drive to the industrial part of town to see the animal victims of justice.
But it is not like going to The Zoo.
Things have changed...
Things have evolved..
No longer do we go to watch them.
Because now we have realized that it's not polite to stare and point.
We go only to VISIT them...
To listen to them..
To tell them that our hearts are in there with them
We are much to humbled to stare, point or take pictures
We just look in their eyes and smile
And talk to them about human parkour athletes that we saw on the tele...
And ask them how they are feeling...
And wait for them to do some of those sweet parkour moves.
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