THE RELATION OF THE UNRELATED

Why should we speak?-he said-What's the use of many

explanations

when, as you are hurrying to arrive in time

for friends awaiting you to discuss a matter

of much importance, which has to do with you and many others,

you suddenly stop in the middle of the street to look

that bird serenely walking on the asphalt,

with its head raised ecstatically, more informed than you.

with a bus ticket in its long beak?