The Bower Bird, Ch.II

I am going to give you
a new melodic conception
on a tune you are familiar with. If we overlook
such exceptional movements as earthquakes,
hurricanes, storms, avalanches and waterfalls,

nature is silent. This is very exciting,
because mankind has always thought about being
invisible or having invisibility cloaks. Also, I think
knowing the weight proportionality of body parts
would be important if you needed to dismember
and dispose of a corpse. Everyone wants to be
nice to the animals. Most people are not

willing to pay $300 for a salamander. We know
it's a hard idea to get used to, but
there's no lush gift shop waiting for you at the end
of this museum. The significance of those prints
for human evolution has been debated
ever since. But at least in principle, a perfect forgery
could be a new and important work of art.