in the belly of the bleat

car cave drawings shared
giggled like salk licks . poloi hoi

and the boy with the gammy leg
shush, nay the cripple
only needed one shoelace
but he didn't like waste
so the cupboard was full of rights
and the sargeant major
left his wrongs lift
over the fields on a kite made of hyancinth
and a sweet carton of fresh milk
smiled on the upturned fronds
while the other piglets buttered
on the carport slick shaved
the rainbed. hovered in the
nosecold garden laughing
up the road a bit
kicking at the
brick. bounce . . .. ...... .. .

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wrote this after reading
in the papers about a group
of children, the oldest
being 12, who shoved a
child with polio into a shed
blocked the exit
and set it afire.
he was rescued.
not by the kids
who put him there.
some of them
apologized to him
later he was sure
to tell
the reporters.