I saw you sitting outside just recently
Long of beak and bone,
your wings resemble tusks
and some neighbor boys with baseball bats came to scare you away.
but they went running instead.
Then I noticed you had the largest fangs I'd ever seen.
There was a little blood and skin left on your teeth.
You hissed or sizzled or did some desert kind of thing.
You weren't going anywhere.
Then some men with gasoline cans smirking doused you
and set you on fire.
You probably wondered what you did wrong.
OK OK I'll go. You frantically tried to escape
and died striving for freedom. |
Submission Name: Desert Bird
