May 16, 2020

For the Birds

Why "the birds" anyway?
Why should they conduct
the business no one
else wishes to suffer?
       
Are they any better
at reconciling bank
accounts or refraining
from another cookie?

When did they take
up making dinner
or paying the dentist
a semi-annual visit?

Do we imagine they
will just fly away,
wash their wings of
all this nonsense,

and travel south to
warmer climes to
sip mimosas and
lounge on the beach –

flocks of modern-day
scapegoats populating
the shoreline, all
fantasy, no sacrifice?