Patricia Lockwood - What Is The Zoo For What

The word “zoo” is a zoo for the zoo.

 

A fountain is a zoo for water, the song

is a zoo for sound, the harmonica

is a zoo for the hot breath of Neil Young,

          vagina is a zoo for baby.

 

Baby, girl baby, is a zoo for vagina.

 

The rose is a zoo for the smell of the rose,

the smell of the rose rattles its cage,

the zookeeper throws something bleeding

to it, the something bleeding is not enough,

a toddler fell into the cage of the rose,

the toddler was entirely eaten. His name

was Rilke,...