jjhunter: Watercolor of daisy with blue dots zooming around it like Bohr model electrons (xkcd)
jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote in [community profile] poetree 2011-12-13 10:34 pm (UTC)

Thinking of vengeance brings to mind this delightful Billy Collins poem "Flames":
Smokey the Bear heads
into the autumn woods
with a red can of gasoline
and a box of wooden matches.

His ranger's hat is cocked
at a disturbing angle.

His brown fur gleams
under the high sun
as his paws, the size
of catcher's mitts,
crackle into the distance.

He is sick of dispensing
warnings to the careless,
the half-wit camper,
the dumbbell hiker.

He is going to show them
how a professional does it.

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