The Sloth: A Big Deal (for real)
Here’s my news story-based poem (using pretty much just words from the article itself).
The story was from the BBC Science & Environment site and you can read it here and concerns new discoveries about the energy-saving anatomy of sloths.
So I felt any sloth poem demanded to be quite short and minimal. And noticed the scientists had used the phrase ‘Big Deal’ twice. Which, for an animal so energy-conscious – many things must be…
Big Deal
There is not much left
in the tank. 7 to 13 %
is a big deal.
For energy saving experts
anchoring organs
is a big deal.
Their stomach, liver, kidneys
and even bowels:
a big deal.
Nothing they do is normal.
They are ‘off the wall’.
An extremely slow
and low
big deal.