image description: margaret atwood's poem "siren song". text reads:
This is the one song everyone / would like to learn: the song / that is irresistible:
the song that forces men / to leap overboard in squadrons / even though they see the beached skulls
the song nobody knows / because everyone who has heard it / is dead, and the others can't remember.
Shall I tell you the secret / and if I do, will you get me / out of this bird suit?
I don't enjoy it here / squatting on this island / looking picturesque and mythical
with these two feathery maniacs, / I don't enjoy singing / this trio, fatal and valuable.
I will tell this secret to you, / to you, only to you. / Come closer. This song
is a cry for help: Help me! / Only you, only you can, / you are unique
at last. Alas, / it is a boring song / but it works every time. /end description
