Poetry

Pigeon

A fattened club-footed pigeon;

contradicting Darwin perhaps,

or, just a prime sign

of that other requirement for survival:

determination.

Or happenstance perchance –

club-footed pigeon, a lucky landing,

strays upon a feasting ground

of sandwich crumbs so bountiful -

too plentiful - more

than one pigeon can digest.

Thus he has the luxury

not to be selective,

thus not to be selected

as Darwin has suggested;

and, whilst he is neglected,

in terms of his genetics,

he feasts in fields of chaos -

he has been made fat by chance.

Simon Brown