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Come here my master

11-03-2009 at 09:04:36 PM
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Come here my master

Come here my master



I’m a trapped rat
in a bird body


A tiger eating
a shark spitting
out minnow dumplings


I'm a dead whale
with a wild cougar
hunting in its stomach


When I was a wholly mammoth
humans drove spears in
my eyes and throat and
made tents out of my skin


I was born a hunting lion
and my main got struck
by lightening and the bears
have me cornered in a cave


I’m a snake, a fish, a mole


I'm the smoke after the fire


The dry stream bed


The bottomless ocean


See me in the morning
crawling hungry like a
jackal looking over his shoulder
for the beast in the mirror


See me if you want to see
creatures looking for masters to
coral them into the show wagon


Come here my master


Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.