I with my split-tongued personality
do find it atrociously difficult to speak
in ways that I myself understand,
let alone for all you who are not divided
between the snake tongue and eagle eye and
great ursine paws that rent the earth beneath their claws.
A mighty doom is laid upon him who,
unable to speak straight and mammalian,
must think like a reptile or a hawk
(or worse still an insect, a thoughtless ant, able only
to repeat that most basic of commands)
and I who swear by bear or boar or other beast
do find myself split.
Hiss hiss, caw caw, what interminable noise they make
within my mind, and pay no rents there,
no obligation to feudal lord or longship captain
among even one of them.
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