Cartoon Of Their Delights Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Giving up the proverbial children for the offerings of
Speechless faith:
All day long in a cathedral mimicking the human race:
Pestilent and song-wearied,
Trying to close my eyes and picture a sea of whales:
And entire roadway of these beasts in catharsis;
Or a glossy Mandevilla or some other flower that
Chokes itself into the sun of merry go rounds,
While the great beasts are talking guttural and surreal -
And the mammoth echinopsis sticks out its tongue to show
The tourists and their doctors, that not everything
Is made to be a cartoon of their delights.