BROOMS
4
The secret teaching of
brooms
Excludes optimism, the
consolation
Of laziness, the
astonishing wonders
Of a glass of aged
moonshine.
It says: the bones end up
under the table.
Bread-crumbs have a mind of
the their own.
The milk is you-know-who´s
semen.
The mice have the last
squeal.
As for the famous business
Of levitation, I suggest
remembering:
The is only one God
And his prophet is
Mohammed.
Charles Simic
