Hi Hyena Bye Hyena

they’re thinking of killing you they know how to

swift paw slaps the back leg
of frightened animal, fleeing for its life

this gesture as if just playing
death knocks, death twists, trips

what it's about to prey upon
not even a prayer can save

expert at killing what it chases

out to eliminate, pull the plug, out the lights
of what its eyeteeth enter


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
9:30 p.m. 23.09.09