NEW ::: POETRY Apr. 2015 | Page 55

the long and the short of it chickens meet llamas and cats meet dogs who says they can't but often they wish if the crow flies south and the sun never sets what was once a world becomes an island a home becomes a house backwards and forwards the ebbing tide of life when all we do is kiss frogs such as this hopping and skipping from lily pad to heart tongues flicking out catching air catching flies dull glazed stare from big rounded eyes glistening skin the skies caving in the llamas don't cluck pecking and scratching away till it hurts when once there was life now the cat's don't fuc* and madness is rife out of this though two minds can collide however fleeting their meeting filled with life and promise and greeting do we run away from the cats and the llamas thinking that there may always be dramas or embrace the thrill of the chase laughing like idiots and fu*king like base animals and manimals and mammals and fish what do we have in a garden such as this slugs in our cabbages and lice in our dish drowning and drudging and sludging like pish out of the sediment I see some merriment intrigue is rife far from real life do what you want to whenever you can just don't end up like cats dogs and fish