A Boy’s Head

In it there is a space-ship

and a project

for doing away with piano lessons.

And there is

Noah’s ark,

which shall be first.

And there is

an entirely new bird,

an entirely new hare,

an entirely new bumble-bee.

There is a river

that flows upwards.

There is a multiplication table.

There is anti-matter.

And it just cannot be trimmed.

I believe

that only what cannot be trimmed

is a head.

There is much promise

in the circumstance

that so many people have heads.

~Miroslav Holub (1923-1998), Czech poet