笨小笨LETTER TO E: HOW TO BE A ZOOKEEPER歌词由The Innocent Bystanders&Saji Villoth&Axe Graves演唱，出自专辑《LETTER TO E: HOW TO BE A ZOOKEEPER》，下面是《LETTER TO E: HOW TO BE A ZOOKEEPER》完整版歌词！
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LETTER TO E – HOW TO BE A ZOO KEEPER
Written & Composed By Saji Villoth
Narrated by Axe Graves
Dear Me,
So what would YOU do if you were given a gift, and the gift is a ZOO?
Me, my first string of thoughts would go "a Zoo?a big huge wild smelly hungry wild zoo full of big beasts and small beasties I don't now anything about a zoo Really a Zoo?a Zoo? frogs and dogs and thistles and thorns and all?"
I don't even like zoos... all those animals, each one unique... how do I know if the rhino has a toothache? Do toucans get scared when snow falls on their enclosure and covers their little world so they can't see the sun? Does a baby bonobo get its feelings hurt when another bites it and takes away its toy? Do skinks feel lonely at times? How And if any one of these zoofolks are able to tell me what they need, how do I make that happen?
I'd take a tour of the zoo. As little as I know, I know there are so many stories here, so many little things that I need to know by name, and names are powerful things, names like pangolin, gentoo, macaque, mamba... and knowing the names of things makes them knowable, and the stories that go with those names, stories about hot jungles and waterfalls in middle Africa, mist-shrouded geysers surrounded by ice and snow in high Japan, wild Mongol ponies' being groomed to gather bundles of hair to string a violin bow being played in an orchestra in Berlin... all those stories just waiting to be known.
Knowing the stories, where the zoofolk came from, helps to understand them.
And I'd get to work, taking care of my Zoo, knowing this is going to be for a long, long time. The promise of the Zoo is that there will be times of great joy like when a baby kangaroo is born, times of helplessness when a gorilla has a fever and I won't know how to deal with something THAT BIG that is SO SICK, times of sadness when my old elephant dies, times of anger when some visitor does something cruel to one of my folk, times when I'll feel lost and waaay out of my depth and would love someone to come and take the mess off my hands... but at the end of each day, I also know I will have learned something more, something deep, that's going to make be better at being a zookeeper tomorrow.
And Life is like that.
Zookeeper E, you have your own zoo. All those emotions, Love, Anger, Jealousy, Sadness, Hate, all those beasts, big and small, that's the Gift that you were given. And like any gift, you are free to take it all, take only bits of it for now and save the rest for later, or give it away. But almost always, gifts are given to those who are able to appreciate them. You have to know the stories behind the gifts to be able to understand them. And sorry Zookeerper E, I don’t know how to give such gifts away.
All I know about keeping a zoo is that each one of those beasties needs a place of their own. The Cathedral of Love, with all those placards that say "Here is the love I had for my favorite cat", "Here is the love grandma baked into her pies", "Here is my love for my Mom", and many more placards that are waiting to be filled in. The Meadow of Anger (because Anger needs a LOT of room), with the sign in a corner saying "Here is my anger at stupid homework", to the big mucky spot where the sign says "Here is my anger at being made to feel small, feel used, the anger that needs a loud roar.."
Somewhere in the center, make room for a magnificent crystal Hall of Healing, and this is definitely a building that grows bigger every year. Full of light and scent of flowers.
You’ll need some smaller buildings where you will house beasties you don't even know about yet, that need dioramas to explain "Here is Professional Jealousy - Do Not Feed", "Here is Self-Doubt - We Haven't Found A Cure Yet", “Here is Synchronous Noncompataibility,” and so on, you'll know them when you find them. These buildings need to be cleaned out, aired out, maybe these are not your favorite places in the Zoo, but just like sewers, they need to be kept in working order or the mess becomes quite MESSY.
The thing about beasts you don't know is that the more familiar you are with them, the more you get to know how to manage them. It's like a new-born kitten, pink, blind, hairless, barely able to mew. But as it grows and puts on fur, it takes on the coloring, the smell and sound of a familiar thing that you can give a name according to its recognizable features - Smokey, Slinky, Grace. Some of these are huge, like elephants, but elephants can be tamed, named, and taught to follow commands, once we get over the initial fear and learn about the hearts of elephants.
And what helps is that other zookeepers left their records, their how-to books, their drawings and paintings, their stories for those of us who are feeling our way through trial and error. So we don't have to do this blind, or make as many mistakes as we think we'll make. Sure, there will be mistakes, some very very very embarrassing that we'll never tell ANYONE about, but there will also be smart guesses that will make us strut and crow, and feel like we can lift mountains, and those great moments when we can tell another zookeeper about something we've learned that no one else knows...
Knowing the stories, where all these feelings came from, helps to understand them.
Zookeeper E, the sun is rising. What's on the calendar for today?
-- Best of luck, and keep the shovels clean. Show us how You can keep The Zoo. Signed, Zookeeper S
Letter to E: How to be a Zoo Keeper was written, composed, recorded by Saji Villoth at Winterden East Studios, produced by Villoth Veedu, published by Winterden Music, Copyright 2023.
Our wish for you is that you love and be loved.
