The group Is dead A Rhinoceros Without A soul A heavy coated skin Lying like lead Breathing in Breaths of tomorrow Prescriptions For the community This Rhinoceros Lies near the water A dried out Puff of powder Smack him And a pack of dust Rains upward A Hippopotamus Nearby Is up to his nose Cooling In the water Wiggling His ears And cooling In the water.
Irwin R. Shaw - September 13th 1982
Hippopotami
The group
Is dead
A
Rhinoceros
Without
A soul
A heavy coated skin
Lying like lead
Breathing in
Breaths of tomorrow
Prescriptions
For the community
This Rhinoceros
Lies near the water
A dried out
Puff of powder
Smack him
And a pack of dust
Rains upward
A
Hippopotamus
Nearby
Is up to his nose
Cooling
In the water
Wiggling
His ears
And cooling
In the water.