NaPM April 17, 2018

[Tiger the Lion]

Nocturnal

thanks for thinking us cute
when God painted our faces
like bandits

thanks for hacking the trees
and paving the earth
and giving us city hands 
to do soft city things

thanks for always breaking
your back to serve up supper
for all and sundry

thanks for the cookie factory
a block north of the river
and how it spits steam 
enough to warm two acres 
of bush beyond it's fence
where we can gorge
on discarded dough

thanks for the chicken mills
and concentrated camps of cattle
that can't help but spill
meat

thanks for little Jill
who's never going to finish
her brussel sprouts 
before the truck comes
Wednesday morning

thanks for letting Billy drop out
and discard his futon
and the shear bliss of it's goose down

thanks for never being quite awake
at this hour