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""Animals Are Passing From Our Lives""

Animals Are Passing From Our Lives
By Phillip Levine

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It's wonderful how I jog
on four honed-down ivory toes
my massive buttocks slipping
like oiled parts with each light step;

I'm to market. I can smell
the sour, grooved block, I can smell 
the blade that opens the hole
and the pudgy white fingers.

that shake out the intestines
like a hankie. In my dreams
the snouts drool on the marble, 
suffering children, suffering flies

suffering the consumers
who won't meet their steady eyes 
for fear they could see. The boy
who drives me along believes

that any moment I'll fall
on my side and drum my toes
like a typewriter or squeal 
and shit like a new housewife

discovering television
or that I'll turn like a beast 
cleverly to hook his teeth 
with my teeth. No. Not this pig.

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Animals Are Passing From Our Lives By Phillip Levine Listen It's wonderful how I jog on four honed-down ivory toes my massive buttocks slipping like oiled parts with each light step; I'm to market. I can smell the sour, grooved block, I can smell the blade that opens the hole and the pudgy white fingers. that shake out the intestines like a hankie. In my dreams the snouts drool on the marble, suffering children, suffering flies suffering the consumers who won't meet their steady eyes for fear they could see. The boy who drives me along believes that any moment I'll fall on my side and drum my toes like a typewriter or squeal and shit like a new housewife discovering television or that I'll turn like a beast cleverly to hook his teeth with my teeth. No. Not this pig.