The Markhor is a stunningly beautiful animal … & Bryan K. Harlan found a moment of joy in killing it …
…
There’s a quite rare
Mountain Goat
which lives in
the high mountains
of Pakistan’s
Gilgit Range …
perhaps 5,000 plus
left to wander
this earth.
…
It’s horns
are majestically large
& have twists
& turns
like no other
I’ll guess
you’ve ever seen …
& it scrambles,
it looks out,
it surveys,
it stoops to eat
searches to breed,
it is majestic,
precious,
& threatened …
…
A certain Mr. Bryan Kinsel Harlan
from the U.S. of A,
paid $110,000 …
yes … that’s …
One hundred and ten thousand
U.S. dollars,
to kill it …
and prop upright
one of its utterly glorious horns,
as its lifeless body
grows cold
& is no more,
…
& Mr. Bryan K. Harlan
smiles as if he’s
proud, happy & satisfied,
as if he’s achieved
been moved
sanctified,
satiated,
happy there in the hills
in his camouflage
& his good boots,
over the lifeless body
of a magnificent,
magnificent,
creature.
…
$110,000 …
to shoot dead
a rare mountain goat
in Pakistan.
Damn.
