With a broad chest a ******* tongue beautiful feathers, a hot breath and a forked tongue they live on our skin
We little ***** rats in the eyes of the screaming crowd that rattles the fences in the zoo, the cages in which we are trapped
The gorillas who clear the way the hyena who says she is helping the peacock who dresses our hair the dragon for our image and the hissing of the tour manager
Don't step on their tails and don't feed them, please Just let their airs explode, no more ground beneath their feet
Novel "the ground beneath her feet" (1999, Salman Rushdie), chapter 1 The Keeper of Bees