Natural Instincts

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• The business of stray dogs is to trot through rain,
  Bark and roll on grass. They follow smoke and leaves.
  They sleep on flowers, which each morning spring back.

• Like you, glad worker, the cat hungers before noon.
  Its blood is alive. When it leaps,
  Not even its shadow can keep up.

• What scares us most is windy traffic,
  A rushed step. The same with birds.
  Men in suits toss bread when we should feed on love.