Illiterate Birds

What do you see in this little photo?

A sign that read "NO PARKING"

So what does it matter if these silly birds

Are all sitting here just resting?


So what does it matter if they can't read?

Surely no cop would be so stupid

To write them a ticket

For something they did.


Don't know what kind of birds these are

All sitting along this lonely parkway

It's dreary and looks so very cold

Soon they will all have to fly away.

Vina Carathers

April 9, 2004