You do not see this blustering blackbird

Promenading on a barbed-wire fence.

He eyes you with spritelike hauteur,

Unable to understand

Why your motions endlessly copy each other,

One of you, a meek and burly Pole,

Peers a moment at the strutting blackbird

With a fleeting shade of dull resentment....

There is always one among you

Who recoils from glimpsing corpses.