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The Old Man and the Zoo

A Poem

By Trey StevensPublished 9 years ago • 1 min read

We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo

How about you, you, you?

You can come too, too, too

We're goin' to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

He hummed a tune, that's forever stuck.

From age 5 to 16 he would sing to me.

Man, I miss that man I miss that song.

I look it up on youtube but don’t feel the same.

The zoo song.

This shit’s been stuck in my head it’s repetitive.

It helps me cheer up and sometimes cheer up. Damn.

At a young age, it was a jolly tune.

But as I grew so did some annoyance.

But if I knew what the future would be with me and the old man.

With that obsessive tune.

But I didn't know that tune would go.

I didn't know he would either.

Every weekend I would hear that tune.

But then it stopped.

Eventually, I grew to miss it.

Now I look it up on YouTube.

But it's never the same.

It just brings back the image of:

The old man humming a tune.

About going to the zoo.

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About the Creator

Trey Stevens

A writer of Poetry, Short Stories, and scripts.Twitter: @Treysativa

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    Written by Trey Stevens