Pit Pony

Pit Pony

Pit pony blind in England

got rights in Europe with Ape,

registered to vote in condos

cases were pending in Spain.
When Kafka's animals understood
the citizen of Giant Mole
obsessed about it like a dog,
the thing that’s not
the mole that’s not
the mind that's not
the ice foe not,
dots comprehending
to the end
of Pit Ponies
deep in this belief
showed Kafka's animals
were men.

 White and red tail lemurs hung

the wall in Solzhenitsyn’s cell,

pit gerbil hacks on the floor below

were shocked to octoped

to break the boundaries of all that's not

these monsters deep at traffic stops

were wearing Borges’ colonel’s coats of fur,
for the eagle spaniels of Solzhenitsyn’s men
were animals.

 Detached down "The Burrow"

 lights pulsed from their heads.

To give those animals rights we sought

we gave up the ones we did.

We gave and brought the black carp up  

the Mississippi Derrida bed,

borrowed safe mine ponies like snails

 to pull empires big as whales.