They broke off the other one’s wings
Hurled the rebel in hideous ruin down
The immortal incapable of dying
Crushed in neverending pain
Cold blank humiliating
No wonder then the failure
To cultivate a positive mental attitude
While the busy mortals pass by
Incapable of perceiving the miraculous defeat
No wonder then the envy the hostility
Toward those endowed with movement
Endowed with sensation
Who enjoy an expectation of joy
Hurdy-gurdy’s drone
The ecstasy of luxury postcards
The circumscribed garden

The old story has held people down for ages
Flat expression a tedious moral
What it feels like to be expelled