Monday, January 14, 2008

XII

Stink Bug
     Let me stink, so long as they can tell I'm there.

Stick
     If you only knew the roots I have!

Trash Heap
     Here, bring everything right here! Everything on me is part of me.

Puddle
     I am elemental too.

Nettle
     God, these potatoes are growing like weeds.

Carrion
     What do I want? I want everything to smell.

Truncheon
     It is I who am right!

Dung Beetle
     Oh, me? I'm just an organized vulture.

Goat Leader
     I am announcing the Lion paradigm.

Mud
     I am the path, in case you didn't know.

Ant War
     ...yes, but our side is fighting in the name of all ants.

Worm
     Long live war!

The May Gazette, 1935

4 comments:

Plaid Avenger said...

Puddle is my favorite, by far.

Andrew said...

--That's a damn shame, because I think I translated it wrong. "Zivel" means something like [physical] element, not living being.

But I'll stew in my shame for a moment--the second comment I've gotten being something I erred on!--and fix it in the morning.

Andrew said...

That's element as in the classical elements, not the chemical ones.

Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Puddle, apparently.

Plaid Avenger said...

ha. But of course.