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 The "Benjamin" Myth

Marsupial, the thylacine,

Are said  to have gone extinct with

The last dying in a zoo scene

Called "Benjamin" 'cording to myth.

Looked like a striped tiger from back,

And looked like a wolf from the front.

A carnivore of fierce attack.

Bountied, so humans liked to hunt,

And hunted till in the wild all

In the 1930's were gone.

Maybe "Benjamin" had the gall

To leave some offspring to live on.

Maybe the "Benjamin" myth be

One day turned to reality.