The Thing That's Not / Pit Pony

Pit pony blind in Britain,

got rights in Europe with Ape,

registered to vote in condos

cases were pending in Spain.

Which 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's not,

dots comprehending

to the end

of pit ponies

deep in this belief

showed Kafka's animals

were men.

 White and red tail lemurs clung

the wall of Solzhenitsyn's cell,

pit gerbils down on the floor below

were shocked to octopeds.

To break the boundaries of all that;s not

these monsters deep at traffic stops

were eating Borges' colonel's coats of fur,

for the eagle spaniels

of Solzhenitsyn's men were animals.

 Detached down in "The Burrow"

electric 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. 

Note: They once shot this into space at the Planet Formerly Known as Earth.