Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit

It is the human that is the alien,

The human that has no cousin in the moon.

It is the human that demands his speech

From beasts or from the the incommunicable mass.

If there must be a god in the house, let him be one

That will not hear us when we speak: a coolness

A vermillioned nothingness, any stick of the mass

Of which we are too distantly a part.

"Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit," Wallace Stevens

1947