good narration, I enjoyed the simple imagery.
KS
On 06/12/06, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Bat Burial
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> The black and brown bundle on the front lawn
> shaped itself to a small wrecked umbrella
> with a rat-head handle and a trailing
> pair of crooked claws.
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> Perhaps the power lines overhead
> had killed it. My neighbour called his boys
> from indoors. With their Dracula imagery
> they were momentarily impressed.
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> 'You can see how they hang upside down',
> he told them. 'We know that, Dad.'
> A click of one's phone camera,
> and they were off.
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> George and I poked the corpse,
> noted the ants beginning work,
> black ooze on the grass.
> Neither of us fancied picking it up.
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> It could just go on lying there.
> But at nightfall, its smell upset my wife.
> She let me off digging a hole for it.
> But which of the three wheelie-bins
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> should it go in? 'Recyclables', no;
> 'garden'? not exactly; 'garbage', then.
> Gingerly, I bag it in plastic, tie
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> firmly the bag top, lower it in,
> black plastic its sarcophagus,
> our garage its mausoleum.
> This morning it smells of death.
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> Wednesday 6 December 2006
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> Max Richards
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