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THE ZOO Some are sheep, unaware, even, of rain on their backs ... willing to follow without a whimper the wiliest wolves, who care for none but themselves ... And some are pigs, who care only for increasing. Some admire the eagle but are blessed like the dodo, and some fly on vultures' wings to the errors of others ... Ostriches miss it all. And the hyenas only know how to laugh, having had their fill by others' bounty. There are doves with no conscience and hawks with even less and even owls are only wise enough to kill with great effect. But all the warm and furrys and the rest of feather or fin mock those naturals of the zoo in headless headlong rush to the edge of the cliff. The animals need no tamer with whip and chair ... But rather that inner compass that always knew the way though too lazy to remember. |