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# Poems Sonnet Woe and glee explode in me And never will you forget us; The missiles you’ll throw and the drives back home And no god that can contain us; My bounds and olfaction, my ev’ry good action Speaks to pleasures you never will have; My scorn, my skill, and my unthinking will I should never allow you to have; A sickly sting will my yelping bring, Our hurts will be but one; And when time’s bent along and the costly thorn’s gone The scarring will better but one. Oh the things you’ll remember, oh the tears you will spend, Wishing beyond wishing we could do it again. Orange Out on a cool night drive, wearing a black tanktop that lets the wind blow against me and my new zoo pride beads bracelet on my left wrist. The passenger windows, front and back, are rolled down a crack for a friend. She hops back and forth between the front seat and the back, smelling out of one window and then the other, making the PASSENGER AIRBAG OFF light turn on and off; With each passage from front to back or back to front, her athletic, sleek, warm canine body brushes against my shoulder and the smell of her coat and her breath strongly fills the air. During a part of the drive where the speed limit on the road is faster, I ease off on the gas, ready to stop for deer. She stands with her hindpaws planted on the back seat and her front paws planted on the center console right beside where my elbow rests, and looks ahead—vigilant— and her side leans against mine as we slowly prowl. Red Slowly waking to a quiet room and then rolling over to find a dog with on the bed. Keep My corpse in all its splendor I think will not surrender One more climactic happy noise Nor one more line on Gaia’s joys # ζ Most within To Thine Own Self Be Zoo written by Eggshell Ghosthearth. This website contains works of literature, including narrative fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Within this literature, any resemblances to any existing copyrighted materials, trademarks, or persons is completely coincidental, or is used for artistic purposes within the bounds of Public Domain, Fair Use, or Public Figure Status. Much of the literature on this site contains themes of sexuality, though is at no point intended to be pornographic. To Thine Own Self Be Zoo is a personal project and is not a for-profit endeavor.