something eric wrote when he shoulda been working

At the zoo,
with a camera,
capturing like a poacher.

I tell a woman and her daughter
to go into a monkey cage, where the animals rape
them; I'm brilliant.

Who are you to say
I murdered
to extinction?

The spectator's
revulsion
was symbolic

like sex
in marriage and killing
by electric chair. But it still hurt.

I think
of myself as an artist,
ya know?

You wouldn't expect it, but the lions
are the easiest to photograph.