Thursday, October 19, 2006

ALL ABOUT THE OWL

What does an owl do? What does it not? This sort of short and not so tall woodland denizen doesn't crawl, it bathes but doesn't need a towel, it shakes and flaps its wings and that is all. It doesn't have a Texas drawl or say "You all," It sails and soars and lands and flits to its perch on a bush with a swoosh, a swish, a sprawl or a day in a church or a city hall.

This intogritory inquisitory bird of prey doesn't pray or waste the time of day and only has one word to say repeatedly: "WHO? WHO? WHO?" It can't ask WHERE? It can't ask WHEN? Just reiterates WHO? WHO? WHO? time and time and time again.

The owl could have been a farm yard fowl, a rooster or a hen, a bear asleep in its den, a mouse hiding in a house, a rat in its master's hat, a bird laying an egg in her nest, a bitty kitty cuddled up between the two big breasts of May West's chest.

Why does the owl only have a one word vocabulary with lips that don't know how to kiss and thus, like cats and us, don't know the bliss of making out with a mister or his sister? An owl can't reply to WHY? It can't say WHEN or WHERE we'll meet again. Will it be now or then and even if he could tell time how could he say "Four after four and not a second more."

And how'll we mortals ever know how the owl learned to say WHO? and not know who it's talking to?

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