Thanks be to God <br />or Darwin's theory, <br />or perhaps both? <br />that blue jays <br />and all the birds that live in splendour and eternal peace <br />on the pages of Audubon <br />still, but some now only there... and <br />who look through our windows <br />at the TV screen, <br />maybe sneak a look at the newspapers, <br /> <br />can't read - yet - <br />or understand <br />intellectual montage like Eisenstein <br />and the jump-cut in film <br />and are spared the question <br />whether mankind is evolving <br /> <br />William Blake would put this better <br />through his tears <br />and faith<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-joyce-and-blue-jays-everywhere/