Song<br /><br /><br />You know that it is there, lair<br />where the bear ceases<br />for a time even to exist.<br /><br />Crawl in. You have at last killed<br />enough and eaten enough to be fat<br />enough to cease for a time to exist.<br /><br />Crawl in. It takes talent to live at night, and scorning<br />others you had that talent, but now you sniff<br />the season when you must cease to exist.<br /><br />Crawl in. Whatever for good or ill<br />grows within you needs<br />you for a time to cease to exist.<br /><br />It is not raining inside<br />tonight. You know that it is there. Crawl in.

Frank Bidart