ZOOLAND - robert scotellaro

All day he shoveled dung at the zoo. A life viewed through cages and bars. Wore too much Aqua Velva for his young wife's asthma. She still remembered him, Mountain-high, on that lifeguard tower. The salty/cocoa butter scent of him in the sheets. The elephants, he'd told her. Christ!—the elephants...  She was humming a tune from a TV commercial which had stuck in her head. He asked her to stop. There was a roast in the oven, a canary making a racket in the sunroom, their toddler forming an army of wide-jawed alligator clothespins. He got up and reached for the remote sprouting from between the couch cushions where she sat.  Leaned close and plucked it out like a radish. Sat back in his Lazy Boy. She coughed.
 
 
Robert Scotellaro
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