One teaspoon of envy was enough for me
To attack Robert Lowell; with a tablespoon
I could have taken on Henry James and Abe lard.
We are too cheerful about our suffering. The rooster,
Seeing his own body flop about on the road,
Says, "It must be that suppertime has come."
Trainers once placed a parrot before a mirror,
And a man behind. The parrot, assuming
A parrot was speaking, would learn to ta lk.
Perhaps if God would put up a mirror
And sit behind it, and talk, I could believe
That those words of mercy were coming from me.
Why should the rooster go over every detail
Of his beheading? Let's leave some darkness
Around those days when we danced on the road.
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