Friday, May 11, 2007

There is an animal called the water mongoose. It inhabits the swamps of Asia. The water mongoose has one grand trick up it's sleeve (although up its sleeve is not exactly where the trick is at). It can distend its anal orifice until it (the anal orifice) looks like a red ripe fruit. Then the water mongoose stands very, very still. Sooner or later, a bird will come along and start to peck the "fruit". Whereupon the water mongoose whirls around rapidly and eats the bird.

T.R.

2 comments:

Hayes said...

tom robbins once also said that the skagit valley is like a wet rag on top of a salad!

jen said...

he also oce said in a way, our zoo of endangered species would be like a museum, but a museum of full containers rather than of empty ones as is usually the case. A museum of living shapes that have perhaps outlived their function; therefore a museum outside of time, above time, above death; therefore a poetics.