The Zoo by Jamie Mollart

Author:Jamie Mollart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 2015-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

The order goes: The Cowboy, The Knight, The Pirate, The Soldier, The Lion, then The Rhino. The Rhino is stocky and grey as an English winter. He is frozen in time as though charging, head down and red eyes blazing. You can see knots of muscle under his thick hide. His stumpy tail is stuck straight in the air like a car aerial. The comical effect of this negates all his ferocity, and ensures that despite his size and strength he is below the Lion.

Of course there is also intelligence to take into account. He is an automaton. A tank. He is bullish and instinctual. He is prehistoric. The past in the present.

He is thick skin.

He is point and go. A machine. Trampling. Squashing. Barging.

The irony is that despite his looks he is a vegetarian. He is a one ton hippy.

The horn that is his weapon is also his Achilles heel. The thing that protects him, the thing that makes him hunted. His defence is what makes him prey. The sword on his head becomes ornaments and pretend medicine. It is made of keratin, as lacking a solid core as our fingernails.

He is all front.

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