The lives and songs of crows
Sir: Crows, I believe, are '
perfectly nice birds. Of course they don't think, feel
(in a human sense) Or speak or have anything else to do with words.
They aren't particularly intelli- gent (as birds go), Nor are they particularly dense. I don't know that they're as clever as a goose Nor as silly as a chicken. But they can't choose, As, in spite of determinists, we are supposed to do; Nor, I suspect, if they could, and if they thought Of writing a piece of invert prose or a pome Would they choose as a subject to write about Hughes.
Hughes, I believe, is a perfectly nice human, brought Up to be manlike and to speak, hold intelligent views, Etc., yet crows, I feel, might more likely pick on a worm, a twig, a weathercock or a
gnome.
Johnny Petchermin 105 Piccadilly, London wl
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