Saturday, Mar. 15, 2008 - 2:03 p.m.
Can't Fool the Squirrels
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I see afternoon squirrels
walking on the snowcrust
the surface of the earth
is sometimes three feet underneath
yet squirrels come out
when the sun shines at mid day
it must be like Antartica to them
their secret food supplies are
almost unaccssable
and there is only so much food
and yet there is so-o-o-o-o much time
before practical spring gets here
at this latitude
this has been a very long hard winter
and especially so
for the squirrels of Canada
March is the cruelest month
as this is half way between
the end of their stored food
and the earliest date
they can find more
if they run out now
they will die
The squirrels don't look fat anymore
in fact they look a half sized
and way less fluffy than they did in january
i guess they are
getting hungry
and desperate
and bold
I have seen the occassional squirrel
run over on the highway
ravens take turns
picking away at them
flapping up all at once
in a furious noise
when a vehicle approaches
hovering overhead
like spectres of dark doom
as the vcehicles passes over their target
but as soon as the vehicle disappears
they gently float back to the snowy tarmac
like black angels
to resume their feast
the other squirrels do not seem
to notice any of this
or maybe they do notice all of this
but they don't care much about death
while they are so busy seeking life
you can't have one
without the other
and you can't have them
both at the same time
its not so much a case of
life & death
so much
as it is a choice of
---life
---or
-- death
ask any squirrel
they will choose
........life
everytime
