A wig
wigged out
in the middle of the road
is no middle-of-the-road
metaphor.
It’s not an octopus either.
A polypus?
Perhaps, because
eight’s not enough
what with these many strands
stranded on the center line
where pretty pivoted
away from trash.
It’s no skin
off my back,
or off your head, or his, or hers,
whoever ditched it.
There's no skin
to cover, so it covers
not divots but gouges,
and those gouges are filled
not with pebbles,
but bits of tarry black blobs.
The pigeon feather
farther on
knows what loss is.
This isn’t much of a loss.
It’s better
than losing your head,
a head you were part of,
to a vicious jack
with an angry boot heel
quicker than any head can move.
2 comments:
I said 'Boo' to a vicious jack once and he dissolved into a puddle!But if it's a she,it could be scarier.
Pigeons have it much harder than Pellegrinas :).
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