Lawrence
Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
The Given Bird
The
grackle is the tough guy of the streets
Hanging
around the utility lines
Getting
down, shaking down, playing it cool
Grackling
at all the pretty girlie birds
Hitting
up passersby for their spare food
A
cigarette dangling insolently
(But
only metaphorically, of course)
From
his beak as he gracks verbal abuse
Even
at his benefactors, one claw up -
The
grackle is the bird given in pique.
No comments:
Post a Comment