Now that the battle is on, keep off the palace grounds,
You can hear the dwarf rummaging in the elephant inside;
It´s better to draw a curtain of birds around your eyes -
Fall into the picture book under the thumb of landslide -
Than to come upon spiders eating the iris of the eyeball,
Glimpse the yellow dwarf digesting the members of princes,
Or see famous paintings loll, like tongues, from their frames
Into a roomful of heroes pretending to harass pretenses.
(Oscar Williams, from `Dwarf of Disintegaration´)
