LXVII
The Flightless Birds
Under black questions, arguing,
The ostriches hold modern stoves
Though they are strange gods
Darting their red eye. They take pills.
Without reincarnation they hold themselves
Up until a melancholic hour,
Where pressed against an oblique sun
The constellations establish.
Their attitude to the enlisted sage,
That he requires in this world of his cranium
The tumult and the movement;
The ivory man from a passing umber
Always carries the chatting,
Having voluntarily changed his place.