The show is not the show,

The show is not the show,
But they that go.
Menagerie to me
My neighbor be.
Fair play--
Both went to see.

poem by Emily Dickinson
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Animal House

[Angie]
Welcome to "Animal House"
The animals are in the building
It's a new day

Angela... Better known as
(Angie)
(We are animals... Animal House... wut we are... animals)
(Angie)
Uh yeah uh yeah uh uh uh yeah uh uh
[echo]
All I could do is give you me if you choose to believe it's on you
I live in peace I could sleep but I don't choose I'ma animal the promos

song performed by Angie Martinez from Animal House
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This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

quote by Thomas Malory
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Animal

Hey what's the big deal?
Tell me how to feel?
I know where we boomeranged and fell from grace.
Point me to the stars I'm up for the chase.
I know where we fell on our face.
Jump with me.
You jump with me.
HEY, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL-
I'M AN ANIMAL.
I'M AN ANIMAL.
I'M AN ANIMAL.
I don't wanna boomerang.
I don't wanna cannonball.
I'm not angling.
I don't want to fall.
Tell me I'm the anchor of my own ascension.
Tell me I'm a tourist in the 4th dimension?
HEY, WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL-
I'M AN ANIMAL.
I'M AN ANIMAL.

[...] Read more

song performed by REM
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When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'

quote by Jerry Lewis
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The Julabunder

The Julabunder is a beast
more teeth than animal
more animal than man
more man than terror
more terror than anything AT ALL! !

poem by John W. McEwers
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Guarding

Guard us from pain loathing itself,
This pain contrives more suffering;
An animal connives due to this,
Opening the heart of love and banning us.
Your animal is in you, fighting you,
We need not fire our workers
On the fighting of animals,
Animals are just creatures, in the look.
May pain descend for all the years,
Inside the animal is a pain stored.

poem by Naveed Akram
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If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.

quote by Edward Irving Koch
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The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

quote by Leon Kass
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The educated Monkey

At the Zoological gardens
I gave a banana to a monkey
and he nicely peeled it
like a man.
When I got closer
he asked my ball point pen
and I gave him.
He searched for a piece of paper
and found inside it seems.
I saw he wrote something, rolled and threw it out.
What a miracle?
This was written.
'The caged animals are harmless
Beware of the human beings'.

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Italian proverbs
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To save is to destruct

Protect the animals-
Save the birds-
There is a cry all over.
We live on animals and plants.
Animals live too likewise.
If all are saved,
Where is space to grow
more and more plants
to the undying animal kingdom?
23.12.2000, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Zoo

Can't beiieve it's over
already
Just a breath away
one more takeaway
Hide it in a hiding place
one more giveaway
One more way you lose
You can always go to the zoo

Maybe there will be a time
you could stop and think of me

I remember you and all the animals
at the zoo

poem by Midnights Voice
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People Zoo (thought)

Welcome to the people zoo!
Everyone is here, even you.
There is work, games, and many things to do,
Down here at the people zoo.
Each one of us has our own unique habitat.
Were we can hide away like the dastardly rat,
Or pursue it as the hunting cat.
We all act in our own way,
Acting on our sporadic thoughts throughout the day,
And living in our people zoo.

poem by Poet of the River
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What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

quote by Chief Seattle
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Who goes a beast to Rome, a beast returns.

British proverbs
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An Animal Instrinct

Animal is a creature:
A mammal,
Or beast,
Can be a brute,
Or a swine,
At best as a human being...
Known as... a living thing!

Animal is made of:
A flesh,
Some skeletons,
Litters of blood,
A weight of brain,
With gut of feelings...
Excited by... a sexual drive!

Animal is of all sort,
Has different breed,
But one thing is universal...
Survival...is an animal instinct!

poem by Marvin Brato Sr
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

quote by J.M. Coetzee
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Crash Test

Some men believe
Animals aren't seen
Testing on their minds
Testing with their lives
You can't believe
Not even percieve
Animals that die
Animals that cry

Chorus:
Crash test! So what!
Crash test! So what!

Catastrophies
To the animal species
Politically correct
On animals

song performed by Fear Factory from Soul Of A New Machine
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Plants grow for all.

Man grows on plants and animals.
Animals grow on plants and animals.
Germs grow on all the three.
Plants grow for all the three.
10.07.2010

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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