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David's Dead Animal Poem

BY DAVID KINZER

Published March 9, 2010

I like lots of animals.
I like skinny monkeys with short
hair who jump up and run up
and down with one
another like pink plastic party
cups in electric
storms. And I like wallabies
because they’re just
little kangaroos and they carry littler
kangaroos in their littler-than-a-kangaroo’s
pouch.
I even like dead animals I like
animals so much. Dead elephants
because it looks like you could
hold an office meeting or
show a movie in ‘em. And I
like dead boars cause fun-
loving polka-dotted hyenas like ‘em.
greasy streetside gyros and
Aunt Bessie’s fried chicken drumstick,
those are dead too. And
I like raccoons on
their backs with those
adorable
thief paws
in the air like forks with
the handles down.
I don’t ever get to see ‘em any other way
so they’re my favorite.
They’re all my favorites.
What’s yours?


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