There’s a zoo in my body

Why won’t it come out?

There are dark eyed elephants 

with razors and snouts

There are these butterflies 

with nightmares on wings

Deadly little lightning bugs

with thunderstorms on strings

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Trailing along with this zoo

are the merchants of rain

who drown me in unpleasant things

again and again

Each time I breath more comes in

some are beast and some are men

last week I found a creature thin

tried to steal my oxygen

I can’t explain how they arrived

these beast without ears

these men drinking lies

shall I decay inside?