With its disparate arms it beckons.
Look at its face, its eyes half-passed closed,
With a mouth smiling counter-clockwise,
It ticks to me and it tocks to me.
But I still cannot understand how,
Legless, time runs out on me so fast.
(Honorary Mention in Brian Strands's No 1491 Contest)
LEGLESS.
A giraffe and another giraffe
Drank a whole load of booze for a laugh.
When they got to the dregs
It had gone to their legs.
They were helped from the bar by the staff.
Stoking a burnt out fire to rekindle the flame, is like riding a legless horse.
I had a dog once
But one day it went missing,
It didn't have legs
The Legless Reptile
The ruin made of stones ended up a home, rock by rock rebuilt
on a hillside overlooking a valley of gentle dreams and orchids
so rare they only grow here. The man of the house had
a boa constrictor, in the basement, he preferred its company
it was quiet and curled up most of the time. He fed it rabbits,
chicken and occasionally - near Christmas- a life goat or two.
Often, when there nothing on the TV, he went down to visit
his friend in the basement and stroked its firm muscular body.
The man was not seen, people went to his house, perhaps he
was ill, they found a hungry snake, which was given to the zoo,
the man had disappeared, maybe he would return some day.
The house, left empty fell into decay and the roof blew off
a stormy day and water reduced the house to a ruin, which
proves a boa constrictor knows nothing about companionship.
When did
the lizard
become a snake-
the ring links the end of
the tale.
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