Sure, I just saw a bird fly past my window, and I’m fairly certain that it wasn’t domesticated.
PROMPT: Animals
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Sure, I just saw a bird fly past my window, and I’m fairly certain that it wasn’t domesticated.
Never elevate your opinion of a particular animal above the rest. I used to think quite highly of monkeys, and then one — of the kleptomaniac variety — stole my sunglasses and mocked me from a high tree like a cowardly school bully.
Isn’t it enough to know that all animals are better than people.

cattle graze:
each step sinking deeper —
lured by lush green.
It’s a friend who may not understand what you’re going through, but who will never talk… and sometimes eagerly helps with the digging when you’re burying the body. Try finding a human friend like that.

something moves
through autumn grass
at water’s edge.

two little kittens
crawl the undercarriage
of a dump-truck.
There was a Guinea Pig from Peru
who didn’t know just quite what to do.
He’d heard there were places
-- oh, so magical places –
where his kind lived as pets not as food.