Sunday Afternoon

A summer day at Audubon Park in the Garden District of New Orleans.

What do normal people do on a

Sunday afternoon

in the summer in the park?

 

              The man with the Budweiser belly throws
               life crawfish in a pot of boiling water,
               and everybody eats them.

 

               The lady with the sunglasses is being
               walked by her brown Poodle
               water-skiing fashion.

 

               A young girl listens to her iPod as she
               flattens out the Poodle doo with her
               yellow roller skates.

 

              Up in the air a kite pretends to be a
              giant pterodactyl hovering and waiting to
              zoom in and snatch the kid tied

              to the other end of the string.

 

             A cross-legged student is reading Kant
             while sitting by the lake,
             a curious duck his only company.

 

            A posse of screaming children riding cowboy
            on the branch of an
            ancient huge oak tree.

 

           The off-duty businessmen are playing golf
           and talking shop.

 

          On the picnic table there is a sparrow feather,
          chicken bones and
          a plastic sipping straw.

          The squirrel is looking for lunch while
          the flying blue jay blends with the
          Sunday sky.

          It all seems very normal for a

          summer day

          in the park

          on a Sunday afternoon.

 

                          

Reviews

[ogirhsog]

There's not much to this writing, but nice imagery anyway.