The Riddle
what's gray and comes in quarts
is an elephant or my brain;
what loves or walks slowly in
the land is an elephant gray
and old, they have waited a long
time for her to give birth.
what i am saying is the age,
we live in, we grow old in,
grayness is not a state of mind.
you have red-blonde hair, another
is black, and there are jews with
orangey hair from the east of europe.
come to whatever you come to slowly.
haste makes elephants gray before
their time, routs the bears from
the caves before their time, turns
