TODAY’S PLANE CRASH

A bluebird in my garden pecking
at the dead butterfly is me.

The shrill chirp eek chirp of the dead-
battery smoke detector is

the bluebird. A campaign for Congress
seducing votes is the low growl

of spotted hyenas. Sloppy-troughed pork
products are the campaign.

A flailing standup jokester peck
pecking morals is the Speaker.

The black box tape reeling sticky impact
of quickening terror is the jokester.