How To Catch Skunks

   by Katie Degentesh

 

Skunks come from eggs you take the eggs
Out of the carton and crack them
Leave them in skunk-sized traps

In the morning you have two
Skunks the house lays them
Regularly like breakfast

Caught skunks curl up and sleep
In the trap they become squares
Of bulging fur, fatter than omelets

Like goldfish or iguanas like cold-blooded
Animals growing only as large
As their given aquarium lets them


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