Brutal policy,
like inferior art, knows
whose fault it all is.
Ariel
Upward, cheeping, on huddling wings,
these small brown mynas have gained
a keener height than their kind ever sustained
but whichever of them fails first
falls to the hawk circling under
who drove them up.
Nothing’s free when it’s explained.
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