Monday, August 19, 2019

Something About Adventure


Should I think about what the badger
is doing, I may be following the wrong
trail today. Besides, there are no badgers
to track in my neck of the woods anyway.

Couldn’t keep up, don’t have the slightest
clue as what to do even if could or would
in any case. So then, why a badger? Why
not a lion or tiger? Because my passport

for exotic adventure has long ago expired.
Besides. I have grown tired, and am bound
by my inability to track the wild and un-
tamed. Today, as it was for me yesterday

and a considerable time before, I shall
have my adventures vicariously as I nod
off intermittently with my dogs while
watching the wild life on TV. Sad, one

might add. I say no, not so for me. I repeat,
not so, don’t pity me. Turns out, badgers
and the like are way too wily for me to follow
in their natural habitat, literally speaking.

Chris Hanch 8-19-19



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