There are no animals. Seeing balcony railings, park benches, window ledges in the Great Metropolis, everyone aches at the memory of birds

Montezuma stuffs tacos for throngs at Taco Bell, wearing flayed skin of Cortés, the rest of whom waits hopelessly nearby for golden fries

On tube, "The Genghis Khan Factor": the Mongol & Rush Limbaugh utterly agree & wink & are wed on air: the consummation is Hell's reality TV

In the cleric's bar: Khomeini regrets his fatwa getting Rushdie laid 1000 times...