Underground Fox Poem

BOOM! BOOM!

Cannons and we all dig down further into the ground.
foxes aren't made to be
threatened by modern war mechanisms
but we adapt

Our leader never goes anywhere without
the machine gun bullet sash
too bad we don't have a machine gun

The three idiots have half destroyed
their country
trying to blow us to smithereens

lucky for me
we stole all this paper from Kinkos
the Tuesday before dad
was caught killing Bunce ducks

maybe one day
this will be a record for
martian foxes
trying to puzzle out
the lunar surface of
what used to be a forest.

***

I miss the sunsets
and flowering trees
I miss other foxes





(Illustration from the cover of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox with Quentin Blake as illustrator)

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