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One Size Fits All

Loren Brunken 1998 (Utah)

June 22 
Free verse
A lion runs at me
Its teeth grow large as it fits its head around mine,
Incubating the fragile thing, my braids hang out like a mustache

I want to build a picket fence
around this sound
And keep it caged
Wait thousands of years
Until the feral thing goes domestic,
Sings instead of squeals

About this poem

I’ve been considering my own domestication. We have evolved to behave and to value rules: fences, places to call our own, material transformation. What would going feral look like for someone like me? Can we go feral and still remain within society?

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Written on June 01, 2022

Submitted by Laurenbrunken on June 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 290
Words 58
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 6
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Loren here! I am a film artist and dumpster diver. It’s a symbiotic relationship. I love to pretend and I love to travel on thought trains with dear friends. more…

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