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Rabbit Foot
I bet you never knew
How lucky you’d become
As they chopped your paws off
And painted them blue
To make a nice little
Key ring out of you,
You lucky charm, you.
Don’t think we’re really mad
But just the same
Our eyes are now fixed on
Some bigger game
Than your little paws,
Like ivory tusks and tiger teeth,
Alligator skins and eagle claws
Perhaps someone will do this to us one day
When they reach out from outer space
Perhaps we too will be their lucky race?
Clinton Van Inman is a high school teacher in Hillsborough County, Fl, and a graduate of San Diego State University.
He was born in England. OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS: BlackCatPoems, Inclement Magazine Summer 2011,
Tower Journal, Spring 2011, Down in Dirt, May-July, Essence Jul 2011, New Writer, The Journal,
Literary Magazine, Hot Air Quarterly, Nibble, Cynic On-Line, Hudson View Poetry, this issue,
Munyori.com, this issue, Vox Poetica, and Cynic Magazine, besides many contributions to the SOP.org.
Email: Clinton Van Inman
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