Birds
Catalogue of delights: 10
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Birds
- One moment I’m a philosopher, all words
- and fat with truth. The next I’m a poet
- moonlighting for something new to say.
- I’ve tried on the certainty of equations
- since they promised me the last word.
- But I liked the birds instead, every word
- of theirs a spell that guarantees
- the truth of my existence,
- that truths are truisms
- only sometimes true,
- that Truth itself lies
- within and beyond
- what can be said
- and has been said
- with words.