Bestiary with No First Name

the elephant is in love with the millimeter

the snail is proud 
beneath its golden hat
its leather is calm
with its tallow laugh
it carries its gelatin rifle

the eagle has gestures of alleged void
its udder is swollen with lightning

the lion wears a mustache
in pure flamboyant gothic
and pale and purged slippers
like a neo-soldier
after a lunar defeat

the crayfish climbs down from the mast
exchanges its cane for a rod
and with its stick it climbs back up
the tree trunk

the fly with a snoring gaze
sets its nose down on a fountain

the cow takes the parchment road
which vanishes in a volume of flesh
each hair of this volume
has an enormous volume

the serpent jerks itchingly and itchingly
around washbasins of love
filled with arrow-pierced hearts

when a butterfly is stuffed
it becomes a buttered stufferby
the buttered stufferby
becomes a salt-buttered stufferby

the nightingale a brother to the sphinx
waters stomachs hearts brains guts
that is to say lilies roses marigolds lilacs

the flea carries its right foot
behind its left ear
and its left hand 
in its right hand
and jumps on its left foot
over its right ear

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