UPDATE: For those of you who didn’t have a chance to listen to POETRY PALS yesterday morning on KSMU Public Radio, you missed a great reading by Charity Jordan from Springfield-Greene County Library District. Charity read a poem by Jane Yolen, “Calling Home,” and one by Carole Boston Weatherford, “What My Kinfolk Taught Me,” from an anthology titled I REMEMBER, POEMS AND PICTURES OF HERITAGE, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins. Don’t forget to tune in next Wednesday at 9:45 a.m. for the next reading!
Hi everyone,
This is how you remove a skunk from your back yard. You call in an expert. Thanks Southwest Nuisance Wildlife Control.
Bye-bye little skunk. Hope you have a good life, only somewhere else. Back to work today without the worry about that little issue.
As he departed I was reminded of one of the first poems I ever wrote for kids. It’s in a book somewhere but I don’t remember which one.
Lowly skunk, all stink and phew,
Secretly I envy you.
I’ve been taught, when things are bleak,
To smile and turn the other cheek,
While you, fulfilling heart’s desire,
Raise your tail, take aim, and fire.
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