“The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.”
“Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.”
“The ship did not leave without you. It left to make room for your ship soon to arrive....the power of hope and faith.”
“I put my headout of my window and seehow much the wind’s knifewants to slice it off.On this unseenguillotine, I’ve placedthe eyeless headof all my desires.”
“Voiceless it cries,Wingless flutters,Toothless bites,Mouthless mutters.”
“So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. “We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.”