Poem – Germany

the human wants to be fish and bird,

the snake wants to have wings,

the dog is an errant lion,

the engineer prefers to be a poet,

the fly exercises the flight of the swallow,

the poet strives for the fly …

only the cat wants to be cat.

– Pablo Neruda

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