Tuesday 17 August 2021

a poem about a seagull hit by a car


a poem about a seagull hit by a car


its dead now i suppose

that seagull in juvenile garb 

dragging its flappiness across the road

hit by a car i suppose

it seemed nonplussed 

that it could not fly

its eyes said nothing but

what i read into them


i avoided the coup de grace

steered the disapprobation 

of the drivers behind 

although my calculation

regarding prognosis was accurate

eventually it was hit and flattened i guess

an odd feather headdress announcing 

its departure into the tarmac


what a strange sequence of thoughts

over the distance of my passing from it

and the curtains of perspective 

closing it all down in my mind 

road sweeping must be a jammy job

bloody black humour suggested


the rains wash the roads into the ocean

they say

the micro sea beasties like blood

the fish like the micro beasties 

the seagulls like the fishies

and shit them all over the road

until one day 

bang!

all over the road


cloaca is funny bird word

don’t you think

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