Pick Ax
for O.J.M.T.

what if there were pet shops
of persons to pick from, to pick up to love

able to leave with someone like a bird in a cage,
like exotic fish in water in a bag,
like gerbil or rabbit

furry, feathery, colorful something to carry off,
to carry home to love

I’d head to such a shop tomorrow,
I’d have gone to one today rather than live alone as I do

a woman living alone, goes to the butcher shop
for meat to put in her stew


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2006
10:31 p.m. 25/may/06