Walking Down the Woods One Day / by Allison James

Actual date unknown, likely around 2004-2006. I do remember my mum printing it out and sticking it next to the family pantry though, and this house hasn’t had a pantry in a long, long time.

Walking down the woods one day
Something caught my eye
Something not that far away
Something that could fly

In my brain I wonder, no,
THINK what it might be
So I wander up to it
Interestedly

On I stroll, it's got some hair
Of the colour grey
Little creature over there
Please don't fly away

Then I notice - how absurd!
Blood around its head!
Wait a sec, it's just a bird...
And it's f**king dead.