A brown bear wades in a pool
clear blue, up to its waist
Its name is Greuber
A German animal, on Germany's frontlines
Greuber is searching for land mines
its paws in the water, feeling for vibrations
its feet padding about in the deep marsh
swimming slovenly
Notes for his hibernating family
tucked away neatly in a subsection of his fur coat
should he be ignited into a ball of flame
Darn these humans polluting my bogs
with things that go boom in the night
Cooking innocent forest folk by the armada
before sending in one of their own
to clean up
Greuber protested
but back in the capitol city
of the country he laid his shaggy brown head
he was the poster bear for Greuber Industries
#1 manufacturer of land mines in the world
built by the world's most dangerous animal
and endured by the world's strident ones
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