Cómo se arranca súbita del tallo

y mientras lejos

relampaguea

mueve

las alas tormentosas

como piedra

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He couldn’t care less. Every morning, at a smart official trit-trot, he pulls the postman Jaquot in his carriage to the villages, where he delivers things that have been ordered in town: spices, bread, butcher’s meat, newspapers, a letter.

As a matter of fact elephants are very sensitive and nervous. They have a prolific imagination, which allows them now and then to forget about their appearance. When they come down into water, they close their eyes. At the sight of their own legs they are overcome by agitation and weep.