Anonymous Americas

1000-1950 / United States

Riddle

A moth, I thogh, munching a word.
How marvellously weird! a worm
Digesting a mans sayings -
A sneakthief nibbling in the shadows
At the shape of a poet's thunderous phrases -
How unutterably strange!
And the pilfering parasite none the wiser
For the words he has swallowed.
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