a billion passenger-pigeons
were caught (and killed and eaten)
in the US state of Michigan.
The last passenger-pigeon to exist
died in Cincinnati zoo (Ohio) in 1914.
– from Gerald Durrell, Catch me a Colobus, 1972.
The mere millions of humans
and horses who were done away
with in the First World War provided
food for only the creatures of decay.
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