He was as crazy as a rat, |
And a Roadrunner, too
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Alice seemed almost as excited about our seeing new birds as we were seeing
them ourselves. On one of the first days we were there, she yelled
“Roadrunner...
18 hours ago
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ReplyDeletereasons for writing the poem, "Animal Kingdom"
I suppose it's a "chicken or the egg" dilemma. Something tricky like that. Besides, I think
it's funny.
As I recall, I wrote it because I just got snarlish about so many people always crediting
sweet considerate love not to mention their own better natures, when the only thing that
ever explained (to me) their particular attractions to one another was that they were in
rut and nobody stopped them!
It was a way to say something impolite, not only about society in general, but about some of the pinheads "suffering from Love" that I knew at the time!