FRANK PERDUE'S PET CHICK
Years ago when he was six
his father killed his
wee pet chick.
Did pain make him
objectifier
who now saw chicks
as merely friars?
.. chicks whose declawed
legs are put to fire?
chicks for nonFranciscan
friars?
An innocent boy.. of age six..
God! now undo the pain.
Wingless birds.. now
Spirit fliers.
TYPEWRITERS OF THE COMPASSIONATE
The typewriters of workers of compassion
are more melodious than Mozart
for greater than the love of art
is the art of the heart.
(to Carolyn and John Mullin
of www.cavies.com)