If anyone can make sense of this : 1000 karma

[Yarg!]

The Petting Zoo

Barry McKinnon

at the petting zoo, I
wonder where the poem is our hearts
(as humans apart. I hug the lamb
& we touch the bristles on the pic. the old of the mall in glee
may remember youth and farms. for the young


it's Blake's lamb (who
made us miserable and apart? we touch the soft
camel snout, watch ducks in a canning pot, swim.

what makes the animals our
friends? (their hunger) while Bobo the
clown yells at the child who honks his horn - is edgy


is the poem, is a goat trying to
get out. we feed him through
the gate.


(Its written exactly like this- so the brackets are opened at points, and the sentences are oddly shaped).

 

[Spartacus]

some old lady got fucked in the barn
a trip to the zoo brought back those fond memories

 

[Longhorn85]

The author was probably a Christian.

The zoo is life. The lamb is Jesus. The kid is our child-like relationship with Christ. The pic on the wall is the scriptures. The clown is the Holy Spirit. The goat we feed that is trying to get out is our attempt to satisfy worldly desires.

 

[Ozz2001]

The author was probably a Christian.

The zoo is life. The lamb is Jesus. The kid is our child-like relationship with Christ. The pic on the wall is the scriptures. The clown is the Holy Spirit. The goat we feed that is trying to get out is our attempt to satisfy worldly desires.

Good dam try but ill say bullshit bro.....Holy Spirit a Clown? You could never sell that one! People dont down the holy spirit like you just stated and it just doesnt seem right....if you believe or not!

Holy spirit wouldnt yell at kids for honking his horn either......

 

[harmonica]

He's referring to William Blake's........The Lamb...no clue what it's about...dude sounds like he is remembering youth and innocence lost.

 

[Longhorn85]

Good dam try but ill say bullshit bro.....Holy Spirit a Clown? You could never sell that one! People dont down the holy spirit like you just stated and it just doesnt seem right....if you believe or not!

Holy spirit wouldnt yell at kids for honking his horn either......

If you read the poem as allegory, I think you could make the case. Not dissin' the Holy Spirit. The clown yells at the kid who honks his horn. The Holy Spirit speaks to us when we are out of line. Convicts us.

 

[needtogetaas]

Good dam try but ill say bullshit bro.....Holy Spirit a Clown? You could never sell that one! People dont down the holy spirit like you just stated and it just doesnt seem right....if you believe or not!

Holy spirit wouldnt yell at kids for honking his horn either......

good point

 

[drrman]

The author was probably a Christian.

The zoo is life. The lamb is Jesus. The kid is our child-like relationship with Christ. The pic on the wall is the scriptures. The clown is the Holy Spirit. The goat we feed that is trying to get out is our attempt to satisfy worldly desires.

impressive insight...k to ya

 

[Yarg!]

He's referring to William Blake's........The Lamb...no clue what it's about...dude sounds like he is remembering youth and innocence lost.

You got the right idea.

 

[Longhorn85]

impressive insight...k to ya

Thanks. No k from yarg so I guess he doesn't accept my interpretation.