He couldn’t tell her
this wasn’t the petting zoo.
Little Maureen stood
in streetlight rain
by bus stop, patting
his horny face.
Goat wants to gore a Saab.
But he lets her tie yarn
to his horn stubs, and sits
calm, dog-like, smelling rain.
Goat drove the elephants over
Special Sam the Ringmaster
over Kogie the Bagel Clown
over Zumo the Lion Whipper
through rows of bleacher faced people
and three tons of elephant shit
to the open fields
where they did tricks with small trees
and waited for the Bambino Brothers
to bring them back
Get
Out she said real
Animals always
Try too hard
Winded, Goat
rounded rock bend
eyes shale, horns
hardly hearing
night birds
following him down
Lino block by Tom Williams
Translations from the English 