Whenever I look at an animal,
my gaze wanders all around its body,
trying to see everything that there is to see,
while I unwittingly utter words like cute or scary.
Whenever I look at an animal,
I sense all kinds of things from what I see,
and start digging in my memory for similar things,
replacing images of fluffy sheep with those of my first marshmallow.
Scanning the animal’s body with my eyes, transcoding and storing,
and ultimately releasing the accumulated data from my mind,
has become a special process for me to satisfy my emotive desires.