Escapee
I've an aunt who will stretch out and purr
Or miaow
And another you'd swear had been bred for her udder -
A cow -
A mother a mare who carried me long
A father a cuckoo who laughed and flew on
My cousin's an owl, my uncles are sheep
Shorn
My sister a jaguar sleeping
At dawn
When the rats nip the moth-eaten
Broken and beaten
The good back to life - and don't see
Escapee
From a factory farm at a loss in a wood
Me.
