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Rated: E · Poetry · Family · #1134013
Watch out, they're coming for you next...
Duck Attack

I had a friend
who often said
Motherhood is like
being pecked to death
by ducks.

Sure enough
one day they found her,
Dead.
A sharpened shaft of feather
embedded
deeply in her head.

I guess they got her
in the end.
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