the idiots who poison the sanctuary probably don't understand species suicide. but they know killing.

their ignorance is a kind of live burial

and the poison steward's scrawled sign won't protect the coyote nor any inmate of the island, only the dog with human eyes lucky enough to approach the right way, wary of the signs of poison.

so many of our elected stewards seem born to kill, from petty poisoner to president.

at least the animals don't have thoughts of poison.

who knows where the poisoner ends. is the sign the center hub of his poison radius. the other side of the trail showed no sign. if the sign means everywhere is it simply a terrorist act, a psyop meant to frighten us all from our sanctuary? the inhabitants will never know the capricious rules of our wicked games. they will simply endure.