so I was walking back to the
school parking lot after depositing a check for my wife at the chase bank on
the corner when a red hawk swooped out of the sky and violently smashed into a
pigeon that was pecking around on the ground minding its own business just a
few feet in front of me leaving a small cloud of downy feathers floating in the
air and it lifted off heavily flapping up and up with its bloody silent and paralyzed
victim clutched in its talons into the top of the nearest tree where it tore
the living shit out of it and it saw me watching in mild horror and then
decided it didn’t want anyone to see what it was doing and took what was left
of the mangled remains and flew off and into another tree farther away and it
made me think that there are some people out there who are hawks and a whole
lot more who are pigeons and maybe I’m a pigeon too but by God I’m a pigeon
with a gun
