The Fruit Bat, Part I
On any given day, the tree out back has rotting fruit
peaches hanging heavy, bruised and bleak
sometimes in the middle of the day
you can hear them drop from their branches
plop in the grass
something oozing that might be stepped on later
I wish winds would blow it down
splitting the trunk and knocking it into the neighbor's yard
where the sick and heavy things that sag
would be someone else's problem
The tree out back just stands there, though
and all the bad things he's got with him
well, they just hang around.
peaches hanging heavy, bruised and bleak
sometimes in the middle of the day
you can hear them drop from their branches
plop in the grass
something oozing that might be stepped on later
I wish winds would blow it down
splitting the trunk and knocking it into the neighbor's yard
where the sick and heavy things that sag
would be someone else's problem
The tree out back just stands there, though
and all the bad things he's got with him
well, they just hang around.