Houses stand stiffly next to their fences.
Let your eyes, last sparrows, flutter.
Bluebottles alight on your face.
Don’t you, Kuno, feel the eternal mills–
The unfeeling one bores holes in your head.
Look once more at the moon, the mustard-pot murderer.
(Alfred Lichtenstein)
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