Pangolin Tsai

Another rare sighting at the school of ammunition down at rifle range road, which is contiguous with the bukit timah nature reserve.
No,I didn't spot fucking gay monkeys. Although I did see a a monkey orgy, bunch of monkeys wreaking havoc on a sergeant major's car, I have seen enough of monkey-wreak-havoc movies and done enough primary school compositions, rewriting the hackneyed plots of monkey pulled pigtails of girls in classroom to find monkey rampage and pillage commonplace.

Was taking a stroll uphill when I spotted a pangolin. For those who dun know what a pangolin is :- it's an ant eating mammal with large imbricated horny scales as its protection. Dun ask me how to tell the difference of a pangolin from an armadillo. I only hold a young zoologist badge and I cant recall how long ago was my last visit to the zoo which does not house a pangolin.

Anyway I was surprised. 'Wads the creature doing here?' It seemed lost. Maybe he lost his way while trying to register at the armour camp. I couldn't figure out the location of its eyes ,everything looked brown. I closed my eyes and flinched when I pictured the pain of the coitus of its species. Perhaps only hedgehogs will understand the ordeal.

It was curled up in a ball and resembled a pile of dung from far. Even the spruce cone appearance resembled the fissures of excreta. The pangolin was motionless. A few of us went forward to take a closer look. Its eyes were closed. And it had just defecated. The shit laid closed to its anus like a newborn pangolin baby. Was it dead? Or was this crepuscular creature taking a rest before commencing its nocturnal guard duty?

I was lost in my vacuous thoughts as everyone started jogging back for lunch. I quickened my steps, glanced at my watch, mentally counting down the hours before book out, happily singing the linkin park song to myself...

It starts with-

One thing I don t know why, it doesn't even matter how hard you try...
All I know,
Time is a valuable thing watch the clock go by as the pangolin swings,
watch it count down to the end of the day...