The Fox

 

I’m here to say a cardboard box

Is not a place to keep a fox;

For foxes need to wander free

wherever they would like to be.

They can thrive in many places—

from woods and farms to city spaces,

and always seems to know the score

out in the wild or near a door--

for many myths and much of art

assure us that the fox is smart--

and all our science on this guy

agrees that he is pretty sly.

A family man, he knows his kits

depend upon their father’s wits,

so duty he will never shirk—

he makes their lunch his own life’s work;

and thus, he goes on daily rounds,

defying hunters and their hounds.