Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this - Marianne Moore

There is hate's crown beneath which all is death; there's love without which none
is king.

He feared snakes, and tamed
Pharaoh's rat, the rust-
backed mongoose. No bust
of it was made, but there
was pleasure for the rat. Its restlessness was
its excellence; it was praised for its wit;
and the jerboa, like it,

a small desert rat,
and not famous, that
lives without water, has
happiness.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.