Zoo

poem for a friend

When a cat calls,
a dog barks and
his sheep follow.
Birds of a vicious 
feather flocked
together and just like
that the pigs flew.
They love kittens,
but hate catfish:
fish that swim in schools;
and even if you catch a lone wolf
the pack is never far behind.

¹photograph by Sahib Chandnani, “Lil Sebastian” taken in Austin, TX

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Poetry Tip of the Day!

Hopefully, by now you know I love a little word play. I love how the things we care about most, we give the most names to. Sex, drugs, and in this case animals, have as many names and sayings as we have time to think them up. My idea for this poem was to use as many of these sayings as possible to demonstrate the primitive animal in us. Form-wise there’s nothing too crazy going on here, but this is also for clarity of the message: human beings can really suck, society is a zoo, and sometimes it’s hard to tell who is on the right side of the cage.

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