Surviving the zoo.
It's not easy to survive winter.
It's not easy bein' as sexy as me.
It's not easy using pussy(cat)
As a soporific
And listening to the dirty old men
Say you're goddess-terrific.
I think I'd rather be a zombie
In the morning
Literally.
Warning. This is not a metaphor.
Fuck me up tiger
With those tracks on my back
Take me back to the wild range
In India
Or the back of a gas-station
In the alley like a dog
all the cold needles beneath
My scarred bare back
Like a wild appaloosa
(Too many references to animals
in this living sea of my expository
imagination)
This is the zoo, all around.
The gods and the planets are looking in at you.
Grinding their teeth
In the nightmares the see.