You'll never get me alive

Tales of some errant wild turkeys, told through photos and poetry -- read it if you dare be challenged and amused. Beginning tomorrow: live from the Bennington Dog Show.Pooches amany. Visit blog.amynelsonhahn.info

The most awkward moment

The most awkward moment
is not when you are poised
to ask someone for a long-awaited date,
or when that long-awaited someone
on that long-awaited date has
sauce on their chin all night long
and you are afraid to say a word,
lest you break the spell;
it is not when you fail to make
the best performance of the month
reports, and then find out that all your
employees recommended you
to receive that particular honour --
no -- the most awkward moment
is when you leave the proverbial nest,
safe in the sense that, at age one and a half,
you can always return, but then you find:
damn and a half! It's a new world!
You could breed and grow but that
would fairly require
threats and minds
Unlike your own.
That's when you start to remember
how nice it was
before that awkward moment.

Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn

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