{"id":104942,"date":"2016-11-17T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104942"},"modified":"2016-11-17T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:41:45","slug":"zebras-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/zebras-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Zebras Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_104955\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pandapost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104955\" class=\"wp-image-104955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pandapost.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a 1938 WPA poster for the Brookfield Zoo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>James Tate\u2019s poem \u201cZebras Anything\u201d appeared in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/63\" target=\"_blank\">Fall 1975 issue<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I wish somebody would give me <br \/>a couple of live panda bears. <br \/>After all these years I deserve them. <br \/>Yesterday I nearly went insane<\/p>\n<p>searching for a toucan: <br \/>\u201cNo toucans!\u201d everywhere I went. <br \/>One son-of-a-bitch even went so far <br \/>as to say: \u201cToucans are filthy,<\/p>\n<p>disgusting birds, terrible pets; <br \/>and on the endangered list besides.\u201d<br \/>And I said, then I\u2019ll take the last one, <br \/>I\u2019ll be responsible; my pets<\/p>\n<p>don\u2019t have to bow and scrape to me. <br \/>We are equals, this I believe, <br \/>so give me the pandas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Tate\u2019s poem \u201cZebras Anything\u201d appeared in our Fall 1975 issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188],"tags":[1051,16304,7393,19907,10175,25761,14859,9055,3539,1447,165,25763,25760,25762,6176,24685],"class_list":["post-104942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-archive","tag-animals","tag-archive","tag-birds","tag-from-the-archive","tag-james-tate","tag-panda-bears","tag-pandas","tag-pets","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-toucans","tag-zebras","tag-zebras-anything","tag-zoo","tag-zoos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cZebras Anything,\u201d a Poem by James Tate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I wish somebody would give me \/ a couple of live panda bears.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/zebras-anything\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zebras Anything by James Tate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 17, 2016 \u2013 James Tate\u2019s poem \u201cZebras Anything\u201d appeared in our Fall 1975 issue.\u00a0I wish somebody would give me a couple of live panda bears. 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