by Gail White

“Though cute, the ‘mob’ of wallabies (as they are collectively known) poses a threat
to the Isle of Man’s ecology… [T]he Isle of Man’s mob is almost certainly the biggest
in Britain, [but] it is not the only one.”
—The Economist

Feel mobbed by small marsupials?
You have a good excuse.
From Devonshire to Nottingham
the wallabies are loose.

A thousand in the Isle of Man
are visible from drones.
(A few escaped from wildlife parks,
and multiplied like clones).

They nibble vegetation
and perhaps a fence or so,
but look into their wistful eyes
and gently let them go.

O do not cull the wallabies!
Let them keep passing through.
Perhaps in love and politics
they feel the same as you.
The world has room enough for all,
if all mobs want it to.