The Rinodemwiticus - a New Species

The “rinodemwiticus” It stood proudly hungry watching all the others sate themselves promising them forever more. It turned – I saw the other face preening itself as it strode through the debris of its efforts to build a bigger nest. I watched it struggle to sleep wrestling with its duplicity, doing battle with its multi-faceted manic manipulation of the pillow. In fitful sleep it flip flops on itself, tells lies about the lies it claims it never told. One voice shouts: “I will save everyone from everything” the other interrupts loudly: “I will give everything to everybody.” Six owls fell out of the trees stunned by the depth of this “logic”. The wolves took off their “sheep’s clothing”, the fox moved into the henhouse, the lamb looked at the lion and said” “Don’t even think about it Leo.” Chicken Little and The Little Red Hen were led away in handcuffs. The rotating head of the “rinodemwiticus” contradicted itself continuously. Soon the whole forest was aroar with grumbling and fighting. Christopher Robin hid the honey from Pooh, Mary’s Little Lamb hooked school, the Cookie Monster was “fat shamed” into unemployment and depression. And still the “rinodemwiticus” whirled spewing its noxious vitriol on the flummoxed masses lest it be seen too soon to be the extinct two faced aberration that it is. 4/3/2016 submitted to – A New Species – Poetry Contest sponsor – Anthony Slausen