ratatat
she was gnomic +rat small with 4 teeth +5 hairs maybe 8
prettysweet in a Chuckie kind of way she was the security
guard at what might have been a brother’s new home
except that while visiting the cemetery earlier in the week
he and i were cruised real low by 2 giant hawks+their hawklet
this while visiting our parents graves
these very same hawks had carted mother away snatched her
from the balcony one fine autumn day now a talon glint-swoosh
amidst feathery clumps of LSU shell +there was brother lifted up up +away
all very Mary Poppins if i do say these days i visit RatLady who confides
she’d had a moist-on for he who flew the coop to live among the giant Raptors
where angels fear to tread they’ve made him their leader
(all who are faithful follow me!)
nowadays he divides his time between swooping +inserting talons into the soft
fleshy arms of old ladies on the street soon he will come for RatLady +lay her down
across his big-grassbed +play with those 4 teeth which appear to be quite loose
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FALL 2024 ..what would Zimmy say?..
songanddancegirl 