Thursday, June 12, 2008

IN PRAISE OF SELF DEPRECATION by Wislawa Szymborska

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservation.

The self critical jackal does not exist.
The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
live as they live and are glad of it.

The killer whale's heart weights one hundred kilos
but in other respects it is light.

There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the sun.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

GRANDMA!!
this is amazing i love it!
you should publish this it would deffinitly make millions! also- you should post some of the poems that we wrote, because you still have them on your computer.

love you!!
-amelie

Anonymous said...

oh wait, I just realized that you didn't write this
boy- that made me feel smart...