The Mockingbird Is Making Sense

The Mockingbird Is Making Sense

The mockingbird is making sense

Of everything around about

Which is, by no coincidence,

Against the world he’s crying out.

He plays the part of this or that,

For what he would impersonate

’S the barking dog, meowing cat,

A rusty hinge of a creaking gate,

A cricket’s chirp, a bullfrog’s croak,

The mockingbird has managed to

Make out of everything a joke

By doing over what they do;

Until you wonder which is what—

The meaning or the metaphor?

The bird that’s never nothing but

What he is mocking the world for.