Ate a bug... (To my Tiff & Izzy)

I ate a bug that took me there
I flew around, I had no hair

I sucked on leaves & berries too
which took me straight here to you.

Sweetness rich and ripe with love
suddenly I was a wingless dove.

You took me in and nurtured me.
I stole you blind now you can't see.

Yet I no wings to comfort you
I cried so hard i turned to blue.

So blue i turned into the skies
And there I found a pair of eyes.

Gathering my clouds, i rained them down
But I missed and hit the ground.

They bounced up and hit a tree
And boomeranged right back to me.

Hit so hard I avalanched
Rolled down a hill onto a ranch.

Into some mud I began to squeal
"A four eyed-pig, this can't be real?"

The farmer screamed, than laughed at me
I closed my eyes and there I be.

On the stage with ribbon of blue
Award winning pig? A dream come true?

Of course not how could i be a winner
When i found myself being someones dinner?

Yet a gust of wind blew me away
Finding me back to yesterday

i awoke with an appetite
A head of hair, two eyes for sight

Gazing at the skies of blue
I squealed "Don't let this dream come true!"


written: August, 1991