¡CRUDESCENCE!
The Book of
Contradictions
Poems by George McWhirter
Q. Jimmy, what’s all
this about
the origin of the faeces? And them
birds, where did they
come from
-
the sky
or the damn trees?
A. Out of the water
and the earth
muck that made them
like the rest of us,
you dumb cluck,
and flying after
fun and the sun, all year,
with no overhead,
no air fare.
away from the big smell-