OWING THE TIGER ONE
I’m waiting for you on a bench in the park
Which used to be a zoo when I was a child
Ghosts of animals still roaming the lawns
The rock garden scarred by the polar bear’s claws
The air abristle with horny wars of independence
Apparitions of monkeys hijacking baby-carriages
Distorting the smiles of the next generation
And scaring brainless whole shipments of moms
And as I sit thinking of all this
For a moment I think I hear your footsteps
I turn my head and I spot a giant dog
Raising a leg to mark territories
Previously very much out of its reach
How would the rhino have reacted to that?
I don’t think it would have healed so fast
do you?
And then the next noise it’s you
And I toy with the thought
That had I not moved the beast
To the cage of the unconscious
You wouldn’t be prancing around so cheerfully
All over my life now

There's only so much you can learn in one place.The more that I wait, the more time that I waste