Slow Loris – Toxic Culture

In Asian treetops, one slow loris
fancied learning nine mens morris,

but just the tiniest online glance
transferred his thoughts to Morris dance.

Had there ever been a loris
learning the art of Cotswold Morris?

Cotswold glossary, Issue B
was applicable to she or he

with an index, one full page of paper
listing all the types of caper –

Double, Furrie, Plain and Slow,
terms our loris needs must know.

Hook Leg might just suit a loris –
he made a plan to leave the forest.

Finding a suitable side or set
seemed the biggest challenge yet ...

as well as being poisonous and small ...
our loris digested this bitter gall.

Wait – Rodney, Betty, Hobby Horse and Fool,
Ragman, the Cake Bearer - this sounds cool –

supernumerary characters, hey, a chance
to include Slow Loris in Morris dance?

"Slow Lorises are a study in contradictions" *
which explains the Morris predilections,

with two tongues (one rude) and a poisonous bite,
better to dream in the jungle's night.