At The Zoo
On the back of an invoice
I wrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters
And because money was involved
And so was my name ever in jeopardy
On the back of the same invoice
I rewrote my name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters
And in Leopardy and in Jeopardy
I resolved, dissolved upon a radical eradicator
Inking in, dissolving upon
Jeopardizing in my own name in large Capitalist June Blue Letters
Copyright Credit: Afred Starr Hamilton, "At the Zoo" from A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Copyright © 2013 by Afred Starr Hamilton. Reprinted by permission of The Song Cave.
Source: A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave, 2013)