Watch out for tiny critters,
No one wants roadkill fritters…
Small but tough
When they have to be–gruff–
You know for sure they’re not quitters.
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–J.E.C.
(Google image of a 50 ton diesel-electric locomotive…small enough to be a “critter.”
HAWKING
Up in a tree as I drive along,
I see a watchful hawk…
Looking around the busy highway
With a road-kill restaurant gawk.
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He/She is the second generation of hawks
I’ve seen on this highway…
A larger one patrolled for years,
This stretch for its prey.
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I recently changed my route to work
But when I go back to that way…
I see a hawk watchful for food,
That got in a vehicle’s way!
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 