Sus
Two pigs in a pickup sailing down the freeway
stomping with the sway,
……….. gaze back up the roadbed
………………….. on their last windy ride.
Big pink ears up ……. looking all around,
taut broad shoulders ……. trim little legs,
bright and lively with their parsnip-colored skin
wind-washed earth-diggers
……….. snuffling in the swamps
they’re not pork, they are forever Sus:
……….. breeze-braced and standing there,
…………………………………………… velvet-dusty pigs.
by Gary Snyder
from Danger on Peaks
Shoemaker Hoard Publishing, 2004
Sus— Urban dictionary: Giving the impression that
something is questionable or dishonest; suspicious.
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