It was suggested,
and vigorously denied.
… despite several people,
including Nicanor Parra,
posing as a mummy.
These rabbits
- these blue-collar rabbits -
are convulsing,
having heard an allegory …
Now let’s tie this all together, lest the freewheeling nature of my novel, and the hyperbolic use of the word allegory, has tired you out enough to produce a light skin cancer, barely above the neck …
The explanation is that my mother was a bricklayer,
just as her mother was before her.
In hurrying to finish up,
I seem to have lost my notes.
Was I mentioning moral or morale, mortar, or martyrdom?
Frightened Rabbits
Allegory, Absurdity, and the Things We Vigorously Deny
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