Elephants Can Not Plan Funerals
Elephants don't plan funerals
though I seriously wish they would
then dogs may weep in their quieter moments
at some elephants death you know
most black cats watch unaffected
necessarily by nature vicious
believing elephants might be exotic
mountains in sad imaginary spaces
But it's the elephants I need to mention
a metaphor for humanity's blindness
we'd all attend their interment
out of civic duty and politeness.
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