Animal Walks.

The animal is indistinct,
a rough hide, coarse-skinned thing,
heart beating furious, pumping
the nerve engine. Spin into action -
spin senses - claws itching.

He is nervous and rightly so,
tonight his child bounced clean off 
the bedroom wall. He hasn't cried yet,
anything could happen. Anything at all.

Far off crowds are dogs-like,
Football-supporters-like.
They seem nervy still too.
- and did he really change his route?
Isn't that just asking for it?
Like she was, in her actions, little shit ...

In actual fact a nearby TV blew,
call it coincedence, just blew,
just then, and he pissed himself,
really pissed down his inside leg.
As for the figures; just folk.


Cor, 2000