Joshua Beckman
                                   pissy animals
                   nasty and surly
   climbing out window
and into the world

           I watch from my seat
    pawing and waving

       until someone
             puts something
      in front of me to drink
and I drink

          How are you they
asked again today

              I'm suspended like
                    a little pill
           in a juicy juicy body

     But what kind of answer is that
from the book ANIMAL DAYS/ Wave Books
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