i know which stripes are yours       the ones with

the two tone twist        summer is the dust devil

below the plateau and an oryx in the distance

the dirt road as straight as my mind is roped

i do not want to look at you

is what i think in the dark       do not turn

the light on        i might kill you with these irises

so sharp and blunt       so like me

our forms fit

me twisting every inch which way on the thorny path of truth      

you walking on water but ever bobbing away on

the lying swells       grit on my tongue

our steps sound above the moon

we tread through galaxies and we hurt the world

my sunshine clutches feel happy with the holding

of you when you leave that coffin you need so

i grab you tightly to my heart

in the twilight two tone zone

the quagga, considered since 1984 to be a subspecies of plains zebra based on genetic evidence, has been extinct since the 19th century, when the last one died at the amsterdam zoo in 1883.

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