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This one, too, is untitled
and it's a prose poem

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from Tread the Dark.

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"I sink back upon the
ground expecting to die.

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A voice within me
speaks out of my ear,

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you're not going to die.

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You're being changed
into a zebra.

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You will have black and white
stripes up and down your back

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and you will love people
as you do not now,

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that is why you will
be changed into a zebra

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that people will tame
and exhibit in a zoo.

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You will be a favorite
among children

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and you will love the
children in return,

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whom you do not love now.

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Zookeepers will make a pet
of you because of your round,

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sad eyes and musical bray.

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And you will love your
keeper as you do not now.

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All is well then, I
tell myself silently

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listening to the voice in my
ears speak to me of my future.

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And what will happen to
you, voice in my ear,

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I ask silently.

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And the answer comes at once.

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I will be your gentle musical
bray that will help you

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as a zebra all your days.

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I will mediate between
the world and you.

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And I will learn to love you
as a zebra, whom I did not

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love as a human being."

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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