Purple Rhinoceros Bird
a surreal narrative poem about a poet cat.

Synopsis Of purple Rhinoceros Bird

While chasing a Purple Rhinoceros, A poet cat named Manx, takes a moment to tell his story to the "halo" of beauty he sees around everything. After being wounded by sharks, a kindly scholar took Manx in.The Scholar taught him about beauty and art. Out of gratitude, Manx brings him a gift of a "singing bird", which Manx considers to be a an excellent poem. The Scholar rejects the poem, because it is original. The scholar, though full of knowledge, can not create anything original himself. He can only regurgitate the meatless bones of academic analysis. In a drunken fit of envy and frustration at life's absurdity, the Scholar commits suicide. Despairing, Manx falls asleep while meditating at the Scholars grave and encounters a Purple Rhinoceros. The Purple Rhinoceros, with poetic absurdity, explains that life has no reason we can understand, and do not need to. We only need to embrace the absurdity, learn our lessons and chase our dreams. Manx accepts this wisdom, and begins his pursuit of a Purple Rhinoceros Bird.

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