To the Public: AIR-MAMMOTH

It wasn’t

the ruins of a small propeller plane,

as they had in the beginning believed.

It was the skeleton,

dry and abandoned, of a baby mammoth,

having died somewhere in Siberia

and been discovered by a backpacker.

The prop plane is a mechanical being,

and a great intellectual proved

that the skeleton had tusks,

an animal with more than enough credentials

to be in the Great Zoo.

But considering how here

only living beings are admitted,

they’ve set down this simple information

with a photo of the quarry,

called air-mammoth in an eclectic manner,

to avoid any other discussion.

Translated from the Spanish