After adding the ostriches out of Deniliquin to my Australian list some
years ago the following verse occurred to me:
*THE OSTRICH*
An ostrich peered beneath its shawl
To see if it was there at all
And when convinced it did exist
Became a painful narcissist.
But if it saw it wasn’t there
No living flesh, just misty air
The ostrich would have lost charism
And shunned existentialism
*Geoff Ryan*
2006
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