'Bring 'em home alive, and now, ' <br />coos liberal table pounder. <br />'Put the welfare slobs to work, ' <br />fat catbird caws to counter. <br /> <br />'It's corporate sloth that keeps us down, ' <br />comes lefty's pat response. <br />'Stop whining! ' commands the righteous right, <br />'show gratitude for once.' <br /> <br />'Let's harness the sun, spare the critters <br />& hammer our swords to ploughshares.' <br />'We've mastered the atom, put fossils to work <br />& as for the arts, who cares? ' <br /> <br />By the red-neck reckoning <br />Life's sacred from neo-conception <br />while blue-blood necro-libertine <br />begs further interpretation. <br /> <br />Lorenz found that, tho doves might coo, <br />they’ll bite off a partner’s head. <br />A hawk is a ruthless scavenger <br />that picks at the weak and the dead. <br /> <br />Ostriches don’t really burrow from fear <br />but still won’t see what’s around. <br />Some chickens gaze up @ the rain so long <br />swallowing precip until they drown. <br /> <br />Chicken Hawks and Ostrich Doves <br />grown flightless on points to ponder <br />assuming the world's split red and blue <br />& capital to squander.<br /><br />Cretan Maineiac<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/chicken-hawks-and-ostrich-doves/
