An eagle’s diet consists

                       of corks, melons, priests,

                                        winter births, Malcolm

                                    McLaren, the newly

                                              confirmed Deputy

                               Secretary of the U.S.

                                   Department of Housing

                            & Urban Development,

                      an alpha male wolf, a family

                              exiled from the Dominican

                    Republic, Uluru, six Capuchin

                                monks—or was that

                                   monkeys?—young Dracula,

                              Tip O’Neill’s grand-

                          children, their grandmother,

                                 an impromptu curbside choir,

                       two HIV-AIDS research teams,

                           Gerard Manley Hopkins,

                             chopped mice & chicken

                                       eggs, vegetarian primates, the

                            corpse of your enemy,

                                 a cigar box lid, the Grand

                             Canyon, adopted & genetically

                                             distant children of the

                                   Baatombu, animal rights

                                              activists, the delicate eco-

                       system of countryside Tasmania,

                                     popular Brazilian music, &,

                                                           occasionally, small

                                                  animals & fresh fish.