Very Bad Archive
roadkill
sheila gasquet
Found on the road dead..not drunk, a skunk; it used to stink..now stunk.
There's a vast array of creatures here,
in bits and pieces, bloody smears.
Squirrels, cats, rabbits and a lot of deer.
I live in the country there are hunters near,
so the dear run in front of my car.. then vultures then come to feed from afar.
The only animal I haven't seen dead on the road.
Is not a cat, dog, rabbit or toad, but a water wader called an Alligator, a reptile cousin of the Crocodile. To see these reptiles dead you must drive south , 325 miles, but it would be worth it, to see into ones dead open mouth.
To count it's teeth, then ponder a while does an alligator really smile?
sheila gasquet has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of sheila's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of sheila's latest works: