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Summer 1955 • Vol. XVII No. 3 • Poetry |

The Mantis (To a Vegetarian, Pacifist, Mystic)

(To a vegetarian, pacifist, mystic)

  Bug eating bush, bird eating bug, beast eating bird
  Have turned Bill’s belly from beef to chervil and curd;
  Chumping chard and chicle and chutney and cheddar and chive,
  He bolts his rebuke to the blood that keeps us alive.

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