Observation

Appropriate for nothing
is what they say about
these facts:

marvelous birds
can chirp or sing or make
noise of any sort in time
with music played below them;
frogs climb trees and play games
within them, games like
poker and hopscotch; leaves
themselves can speak languages
unknown to humans, to any animal
really;

they sniff at all of this
and turn back to books
on business writing, accounting,
and scientific health care
while around them this world
whispers and serenely ignores them
as being superfluous, extra,
and not worth their time.

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onward,
T