I was on the subway today,
and a guy showed me
his ostrich. I'm serious,
I looked over and he had this
checkered smile and his ostrich
by the neck, squeezing
the throat so tight
the ostrich's head was purple. HEY,
YOU CAN'T DO THAT, I wanted to say,
YOU CAN'T BRING OSTRICHES ON THE SUBWAY,
but this was New York, we don't
talk to strangers, so I looked
down at my newspaper
and thought about the plight
of a flightless bird, able
to run faster than most horses,
yet so hard to saddle.
Jeffrey McDaniel
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