Trojan Poetry 57: "Monsters" by Dorothea Lasky

Lasky reading her poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56427/monsters

Interview from which the excerpt is taken: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/interview-dorothea-lasky/

Lasky giving presentation about how poetry makes us human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCIkBx64DU&t=1288s

Monsters 
by Dorothea Lasky

This is a world where there are monsters
There are monsters everywhere, racoons and skunks
There are possums outside, there are monsters in my bed.
There is one monster. He is my little one.
I talk to my little monster.
I give my little monster some bacon but that does not satisfy him.
I tell him, ssh ssh, don’t growl little monster!
And he growls, oh boy does he growl!
And he wants something from me,
He wants my soul.
And finally giving in, I give him my gleaming soul
And as he eats my gleaming soul, I am one with him
And stare out his eyepits and I see nothing but white
And then I see nothing but fog and the white I had seen before was nothing but fog
And there is nothing but fog out the eyes of monsters.