NATURE

The cheetahs
do not look so often at their fingernails
to check which needs th'quickest manicure

nor do they sneak their paws behind their necks
to reach for hidden knives:

they wear no etiquette
just feed on life, and

The Tiny Bird running around
what it believes to be The World

(a beach ball upon which it manages
to always balance itself on top)

while The Winds blow its world about
and away...                 

      --He'll know at last
even The End of his world was not his death

when he falls to Th'Ground or th'waves
scare him up to Th'Heavens he craves, but

maybe Th'Flightless Bird
needs live his life on legs

thinking maybe sans saying a word

that those legs with each step
upwards come from th'courteous earth

from his birth to his death

to hold him up! like A Victor conveyed
by fanatical crowds

feet clapping ever consecutively loud
their ignorant approval, or

Wings are Th'Way
Th'Birds sustain The World!

while cheetahs, stuffed still & curled
at rest,

wake from their naps & Yea