White Crow
Posted: 05 Aug 2019, 23:35
When I was a kid, the old folks
teased , saying you could teach
a crow to talk by splitting the tongue.
You would have been proud
the way I didn't cry at your funeral
in front of perfect
strangers, like you always said.
I almost didn't come ,but who could
resist a last look at the pinched
face, yellow bill dividing its eyes,
one higher than the other
as if rendered by Picasso,
pink albinic feet protruding
like a stuck-out tongue, Goddam?
teased , saying you could teach
a crow to talk by splitting the tongue.
You would have been proud
the way I didn't cry at your funeral
in front of perfect
strangers, like you always said.
I almost didn't come ,but who could
resist a last look at the pinched
face, yellow bill dividing its eyes,
one higher than the other
as if rendered by Picasso,
pink albinic feet protruding
like a stuck-out tongue, Goddam?