THE DAINTY MONSTERS
Michael
Ondaatje
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A Toronto Home for Birds and Manticores
This city with sun spreading down the street
could be fashioned a delirious herb.
When snows have melted
how dull to find just grass and dog shit.
Why not polemic bones of centaurs
—remnants of a Toronto bullet,
punishment for eating gladioli.
Luring animal fashions in
these beasts will nerve the city,
clog sewers,
and giving them this head start
we can establish once more
a survival of the fittest.
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