A moth, I thogh, munching a word.
How marvellously weird! a worm
Digesting a mans sayings –
A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows
At the shape of a poet`s thunderous phrases –
How unutterably strange!
And the pilfering parasite none the wiser
For the words he has swallowed.
(Anonymous Americas)
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