The Rhinoceros is always waiting for you...
"The same is true for Vincent Van Gogh..."
The rhinoceros is always waiting for you Patiently abiding Swatting its tail on the other side Of the zebra enclosure. The oddities await In desolate barrooms In train stations and alleys The drag queens are just backstage The record player is in the corner Words and worlds awaiting Pick up the lever and it spins Lay it down on the disk for more The same is true for Vincent Van Gogh That couple, always hiding behind birches Or the mummies and incas Their golden history, under glass The woods are quietly waiting The ocean exists The deserts don their peachy hues Even in Kentucky in February A landlocked soul In a trailer in the holler sees the stars Knows that the grass turns green That the world gets wide That a rhinoceros is waiting at the zoo.
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ah let's get out in the wide spinning world and be in it and so amazed! more awe, always! great poem & i can see each line you wrote in my mind!
The wide open ignored and the edditites confined. I want to see that rhino running after a catching car, defying the noose, and butting the frame into contortions.