july zoo

the zoo stinks
on this hot summer day.
the gorillas are fat
and dark,
heavy in
the far corners of
a man carved cave.
smaller ones are in
the water,
asleep in the shade.
there is nowhere to go
in this heat,
no play
left in them.
flies buzz. birds sit still
on branches
high above.
what is there to do?
they look out, we look
in.
hard to know the difference
sometimes.