I have travelled [on a train
a whistling ship a rocket]
I have visited the earth
[a planet full of sawdust just like the moon]
and I divided the animals into species
the way I saw it
the snake
[the rustling hull through the grass]
the flamingo
[a stalking rowboat on the water]
and the wolf
[a dangerous firespitting earth animal
with a sign on its body]
and I found
it to be good the way I saw it
of myself next to my carriage]
(From PRIVATE 36 – AFRIKA, p. 82 – Argo Spier
from RAAm, 1996)
