04-23-2024, 06:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-23-2024, 08:01 AM by TranquillityBase.)
A Warning Despoiled
Driving through the rolling hills
covered in the green of cedar, oak,
little blue stem grass
I saw a coyote crucified upside down
on a rancher’s barbed wire fence.
I thought to myself,
“fuck that”
made a u-turn back to where
the coyote hung.
He was big as a German Shepherd,
not long dead, but stiff.
I unwired his hind legs from the barbed wire,
and put him in the bed of the truck.
I took him to my Ghost Deer Ranch,
where I had a stack of cedar,
ready to burn, made it his funeral pyre.
After the ashes cooled, I gathered the bones,
and buried them next to the shed.
Driving through the rolling hills
covered in the green of cedar, oak,
little blue stem grass
I saw a coyote crucified upside down
on a rancher’s barbed wire fence.
I thought to myself,
“fuck that”
made a u-turn back to where
the coyote hung.
He was big as a German Shepherd,
not long dead, but stiff.
I unwired his hind legs from the barbed wire,
and put him in the bed of the truck.
I took him to my Ghost Deer Ranch,
where I had a stack of cedar,
ready to burn, made it his funeral pyre.
After the ashes cooled, I gathered the bones,
and buried them next to the shed.