Thursday, October 13, 2011

TAR AND FEATHERS

I’ll be dipped, a predictive statement
Where tarred ocean waves touch the shore
There will be no birds or fish to forage and score.

Grease my palm, a prophetic term for angling
Income and life style from the ocean
Where greased palms with karma is a black lotion.

If there’s an ass to kick let’s kick it
If there’s an individual to censure
Let’s requisition it.

Tar and feathers, a popular punishment of yore
And used by people to even keel a score
If birds and fish could talk they’d say,
“We fly and swim and never use gasses
So confused we ask, “Why paint our asses?”
Lillian Heeney 2010

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