Today's poem is by William Aarnes

Mammals
       

The pig in epigraph.

The cat in domestication
and in scatology.

The lion in bullion?

The bat locating an echo in acrobatic;
the bear in forbearance.

That ox in intoxicant?

The rat in fraternity,
reiterated and just as snug
in democratic as in autocratic,
the rat in rational,
in temperate, in literate,
the rat in narrative.

The human tricked out in humane.

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