Said Mr. Wigeon to Mr. Pigeon,“Why do you live
in town? There‘s people there, and sir, the air —
The air, my friend, is brown!”Said Mr. Pigeon to
Mr. Wigeon,“From people’s crumbs I grow fat;
The climate of your marsh I find too harsh —I live
in town, and that‘s that!”
(Eliot York)
(John Ciardi)