General Poetry posted October 22, 2018 |
belated rant
Oil Can Harry
by LIJ Red
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It was in the late 1950s. I named the black and white kitten after the cartoon character when he fell into my dad's bucket of crankcase drainings. Harry died in a steel jawed trap and being worth nothing to the trapper, he was tossed out into an illegal trash dump with the skinned bodies of the fur animals. I think of things like this when I catch myself fretting too much about the dozers and concrete trucks roaring by...
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