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Litterateur redefining world December 2020

The animals are clamoring
The deer
The hawks circling
The squirrels
All the inhabitants of the zoo
The lions in the San Francisco Zoo
They are all making noises
The monkeys howl
Dogs and cats in the streets
The incredible coyotes
Strolling in the city
The fish
The whales
Even the tiny things, the ants, the bugs,

mosquitos
Everything
Even the living trees
That bend to the wind
Near the water
The ocean the sand
The monkeys
They are all muttering or crying
Or howling outright
And the animals that are people
The "mammal nation"--
All these creatures know
They clamor they "complain" (in the old sense)
That the poet McClure is gone

Though they cannot
tell you where

AUDIOLIZATION
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EXPERIENCE THE PERFORMANCE POET
JACK FOLEY

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