Bambi and Vegan Thai Bursting Through Concrete, Sherman Aleski

Sherman Alexie, at the Bay Area Festival of Books, bemoaned that because his host was a vegan, he wound up having vegan Thai.

Later he referred to a writer who named herself Bambi because "Bambi is a survivor."

A third reference he made was to flowers bursting through cement.

 He didn't seem to see how all of these were related.

As I sat there, I wrote a verse:

Those flowers bursting through concrete

            Are vegan Thai.

Survivor Bambi's mom was meat.

            You'll get it by and by.

I tried to rent the movie (1942) of  Bambi, but it's never been released on DVD.  I wonder why.

The Little Golden Book was based on the Disney film that was in its turn based on Felx Salten translated by Whittaker Chambers.

I looked up Felix Salten and found out that he was an Austrian Jew, born in Hungary.  His family moved to Austria because Jews were given full citizenship there in 1867, two years before his birth.

Here are some excerpts from The Little Golden Book of Bambi:

The great stag uttered one dreadful word:  "MAN!"

Later, as Bambi and his mother lay safely in their thicket, his mother explained.  "MAN.  Bambi--it was MAN in the meadow.  He brings danger and death to the forest with his long stick that roars and spurts flames.