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Well, that was a doozy of a couple of months, but I’m back with a special two part feature of poetry by fellow San Franciscan, Taylor Melligan. These two poems of course caught my eye as I’ve been pretty much starving for anything and everything not real world news related. So, without further ado, I give you Taylor Melligan’s poems with animal titles that aren’t really about animals at all.
CATS
The only light tonightthe flashing of the oil rigs beyond the riverThe shotgun houses dark,the streets deserted asSix Flags after the hurricanewhen the bumper cars lay on their sidesand the alligators moved into the wave poolThe stop signs beyond my windowwait for nobodyand nobody knows I’m here.Too much wine and a slip onthe slick bathroom floorwouldn’t bring anyone runningIndeed, it could be weeks before somebodysmelled me.I might as well be a spinster whodies in front of her TVwatching Judge Judyher decomposing bodyeaten by her catsbutI don’t have a TVand I don’t have any cats.*
SQUIRREL
Nighttime clickety-clack of the doggnashing his teethIn his dreams he sprints after a squirrel anddevours ittearing the raggedy pelted fleshand crunching each bone with the relishof a gourmand savoringa marrow delicacy on toastat the French Laundry.I wish that I desired anythingthat dearly—Yearned for it with such a longingthat I saw it in my dreamsand ran after it fast as I could,That I stood shudderingwhen it appeared before me,my every sense like the razor’s edgeevery fiber of me alertwith hunger beyondreason*
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