animal class

Frogs have a self-satisfaction humans
can't fucking compete with. The grasp 
cats have of dignity is incomparable 
to ours. We can only learn at their feet, 
swat, bat and swipe and glare-eye
hiss of peremptory rejection
what it is
to be
autonomy
personified, which is
a fall well short of autonomy
felinified. Felinized. Felinity
is dignity with a tail on! Dogs, 

true, far outdo and outshine us
in two of our most prized "human
virtues": devotion and obsequiousness. 

Dogs teach us all these scores. Trust 
me. 

Whereas a bear 
a bear
teaches us
perhaps the most lesson
of all: "Holy shit it's a bear!" 

That lesson tends to be 
unforgettable