Animal Life

	Born inside the gates of the family
	Hardened by a Roman machinery
	Cast among the building sights
	The calling wives, the shards collected.
	Called out in the wake of the lottery
	Hurled inside the family gathering
	Mirrored beams and doglike stretch
	The wandering association
	Marbles in the dark confessional
	And the rides along the road ephemeral
	As an animal life!
	Rustling in the shade of the batteries
	Hanging from a rope in the gallery
	Pacing down the balance beam of half remembered holidays
	No rush of light, no sign of belonging
	No joy in building love in the finishing
	Chasing down an anodyne and half reflected radiance
	To high below the ancient barricade
	In chambers like the rooms a swallow made
	For an animal life!
	Charging down the mall with the ..
	I wanna come close, I wanna come closer
	I held your name inside my mouth
	Through all the days out wandering
	But called out from the mouth of …
	Cast away like dogs from the shelter
	… that once collected radiance
	Searching at the light's perimeter
	The half remembered wild interior
	of an animal life!

	Born inside the gates of the family
	Hardened by a Roman machinery
	Cast among the building sights
	The calling wives, the shards collected.
	Called out in the wake of the lottery
	Hurled inside the family gathering
	Mirrored beams and doglike stretch
	The wandering association
	Marbles in the dark confessional
	And the rides along the road ephemeral
	As an animal life!
	Rustling in the shade of the batteries
	Hanging from a rope in the gallery
	Pacing down the balance beam of half remembered holidays
	No rush of light, no sign of belonging
	No joy in building love in the finishing
	Chasing down an anodyne and half reflected radiance
	To high below the ancient barricade
	In chambers like the rooms a swallow made
	For an animal life!
	Charging down the mall with the ..
	I wanna come close, I wanna come closer
	I held your name inside my mouth
	Through all the days out wandering
	But called out from the mouth of
	Cast away like dogs from the shelter
	that once collected radiance
	Searching at the light' s perimeter
	The half remembered wild interior
	of an animal life!