#2285 -- one more attempt on the platypus

 

2285

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zoo day

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one more attempt on the platypus

 

it’s every animal makes a world

from all the worlds there are

 

they suffer me to come

an arksworth here we are

 

hello to the feathers

and raise up a wing

 

I shit where I stand

wouldn’t you?

you do?

 

o creature!

 

dive to dip and lift

shake out

 

call it tentative quizzic

it’s every least hollow here

 

it’s every stone a home

 

these dearly beloved

gathered here

 

they plot but lack the freedom word

 

ask the roos why won’t they hop the fence

ask birds what height a sky

 

more intimate here than at home

 

even and despite our best

lots of singing

 

it’s not life as we knew it

the tinnitus city roar

but we’re fed

 

back there was tooth and claw

 

some few of us think to stay

it’s a life we have

new country

 

time like a grove

and we’re exempt

 

plod, dawdle here

there’s whirligig over there

 

bill and some webbing

fast as a flash

 

just a roll and a turn in the tank

 

old crocodile is gone

instead a mome rath snuffle

 

slow to be here

 

must be something they put in the food

 

the shouting of humans

unaccounted laughter

that’s what it’s called

a taunt

 

child picks up a feather for a souvenir

 

push off somewhere underfin

 

or tangle in a net – that’s death

 

it’s every animal makes a world

from all the worlds there are

 

it’s all this weather’s coming for

it’s all that the sun can touch