COLD AND SNOWY MORNING

I cannot plan these things
Wednesday night I counted nineteen deer
From my home to the highway
A total of six miles

This morning in the snow
I approach three deer
They begin to run west
One tenth of a mile goes by
They are still running

Then one swerves from the right and
Jumps a snow bank on the left
Another tenth of a mile
The second swerves from the right
Leaps a bank on the left and runs to safety

The third keeps running
By this time it has been a quarter of a mile
It feigns left then runs and leaps a snow bank on the right
 
I proceed while applying political implications
To the events of the deer, just witnessed

Then I come upon three wild turkeys
They slowly scamper to the left and then
As though it would kill them lift about four feet
To clear the snow bank on the left
They do not wish to exert themselves

I decide to add up the score
Five to the left and one to the right

The left are right about one-fifth of the time
That, so far, would make the score 4 to 2, left leading

Then I think of all the lies on the left and
How lazy they are about getting things done for everyone’s welfare
In the long run you cannot put your money on liars

So I declare for the right
Winners by the score of two to zero
I continue on to church to pray for the left
 
Stanski
February 28, 2020 ^