like the peacocks wandering the walkways of the zoo
who have twice the autonomy the giraffes and the elephants do,
saying:
"no one can stop me,
no one clips my claws!
now everyone watch me
scale these outside walls!"
you took the pious and profane,
turned around the praise and blame,
said "a glass can only spill what it contains"
to the perpetually plain and the incurably inane
a glass can only spill what it contains