(Or, Komodo My House)
for Jack Browne
Only eight years old, Flora shocked her elders
when she bore the five little bastards,
having never seen a guy of her breed,
much less cuddled, or shared a slinking seed.
Yet the staff saw no reason for clergies
to panic and blame it on allergies,
swearing no blood relation to Mary
and the Child with power to be buried
and then rise again. Still, it brought the press,
though Flora and her fivesome could care less.
Roger Armbrust
January 29, 2007
