Monday, November 21, 2022

my dear friend Barnaby

i stare
at the turkey in the back yard.

fat and full of
feathers.

i never should have named
him.

we've become close friends,
as close

as poultry and human beings
can come to be.

Barnaby.
that was a mistake.

i can't kill him now.
i can't bear

to see the look in his
beady black

eyes when i put his
neck to the stump,

axe in the air.
he trusted me.

maybe ham, this year.
come here little piggy.

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