BEAR HUNT
The smartphone twitches, an alarm sounds shrilly.
Extreme warning, danger is imminent!
Keep doors and windows closed!
There might be shooting soon.
The WhatsApp group has revealed:
In the garden, one became aware
that a Master Petz roams there,
brazenly removes the garbage from the bins.
The people are now pouring out of all the houses,
and that is somewhat strange,
because everyone should take note,
which authorities brought to light:
Stay home, chill indoors!
But they lack common sense and caution
everyone who pulls out their mobile phone
and set out on the bear hunt.
Everyone wants a picture of the snitch,
preferably close, immediate.
This is a race, a hurry, a rush.
with all fingers on the keys!
On the edge of the safari fills
an old shepherd, to whom this year
The bear tore the ram to pieces.
cartridges in his rifle,
while he shouts into the crowd:
"Go home, you fools!"
Is your goat still on the rope?
Is the child still in the cradle?
The old man knows the bear wild,
as it always has been.
The people, many from the city,
But he's even more fed up with it.
They've built things up and littered.
Slopes, pastures, every acre.
Well, where should the bear go then?
He wonders, absurdly.
He aims his weapon's barrel
only very briefly then on a couple
that sits on an ATV;
He with an action cam, and you
She's an influencer, or so it seems.
"OMG, how wonderful!"
"A real bear, that's so awesome!"
She giggles incessantly.
Then he accelerates, and they're gone.
The shepherd wipes the dirt from his eyes.
He now lowers his rifle sullenly,
has long since used up all its ammunition.
For the first time, he wishes the bear luck,
A piece of the forest somewhere.