ASSOCIATION TRIGGERS (BEARS)

Facial resemblances are triggered by green and yellow acrylic koala bear.
Panda bears pander to no one.
Panda cars—now obsolete police vehicles—pamper nostalgic TV viewers watching reruns of Z-Cars and The Sweeney in noisy chase sequences.
Polar bears, solar flares, containing imagery suggestive of various types of bears’ faces, along with flurries of sun spots,
While gunshots in a black and white western add to the mythic exaggeration of North American history: a US creation that’s no mystery.
In that part of the world are grizzly bears,
Standing erect and proud or sleeping curled,
Their furry bulks shift in and out of shadows,
The American Stars and Stripes flag is unfurled.
A bear used to symbolise Russia.
An usher directs a filmgoer to their seat,
Where suffering in the cinema’s excessive heat,
They watch 3D bear animations that are incomplete.
Bare all in the glare from a bear bearing down on you,
While, bearing up under the strain, you strain to wear down the bear.
Bear this in mind, the bearlike faces that you find,
Spontaneously inspired when your imagination has been fired,
Some fierce and growling, others tender and kind,
Bear no relation to a cheese and its’ rind,
Or the other layers for which you truly pined.