Like An Animal Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca

This poem talks about how he might turn into someone the "real" him and that he scared that it a animal blood thirsty that prison has made the "real" person come out. The outside looks good compare to the inside who knows what it might be maybe a killer because he has blood on his fingernails. That prison made him think like that, because in prison there mostly killers and he is group in with them to maybe survive. So now he has become one them so he is scared now of what he might become the animal that is lock behind the bars.