You Pay Attention Only When Fictions Violate Your Customs

It’s just people stuff, good as it is,
Just who did what to whom. Deathless gods,
Invented by people, all behave as

People, and look like bigger people.
Even the talking horse, given speech,
Makes use of it to make excuses,

Just as someone human would. Figures
Compare humans to phenomena
Of the world as it was with humans,

And so a few, familiar creatures
Turn up here and there, but even then
They’re really all about the humans.

When the characters behave strangely,
As you wouldn’t, then it’s interesting.