Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zoo. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Zebra

We wear a zebra suit.
Taunt cats at the zoo.

You are the head.  Tell the joke
about black and white and red. 

(Embarrassed)  I shake our tail.
Rattle the cage with our hind legs.

They pace.  Look at us.
A sandwich.  Chain gang of two. 

Bow their heads.  (Say grace)
by his stripes we are healed.

Warning sign.  Loose letters.
Beyond this:  the point of no return.

(Without our glasses) squinting
gets us nowhere.  And everywhere.

We wear a zebra suit.
Share some striped pajamas.



tk/August 2014 


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