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​East Fork:

A Journal of the Arts​​


The Bear Who Stood Up To Man

By Jared Frondorf

A Master Of The Dastardly


One Filling Our Environment Hazardly


Beating Back Nature Almost Handedly


Until But One Bear Stood Up To Man Haggardly


But Man Laughed Heartily


What But One Bear Could Do To Stop His Machinery


But The Bear With Swift Mastery


Massacred Mans Tools With Swift Waggery


As Man Stood In Abject Misery


He Turned Tail And Left Brokenly


For That Day Naught But One Bear


Had Beat Man And Ended His Caustic Reign


And Stopped The Fall Of His Toxic Rain


Many Wonder The Fate Of That Young Bear


But To Many Young Delights We Bear


He Sleeps In His Home Far In Natures Glare


Peacefully Taking His Minute Share


As We All Might Do If We Learned A Thing Or Two


From The Bear Who Stood Up To Man