other animals

which was mostly able to limp 
past the so-called wild-west phase but 
never could embrace what one would 
term civilization before 
receding from the record, though 

I am but a gala priest junior class 
entrusted with certain songs who 
with the ensi of this small state 
have tried to add aspects of fig 

and poppy to the flowering 
of new tongues in the time of our 
collapse as the wind chooses which 

syllables will supply the feast and what  
may one day pass to other voices