Hallmark

If you gouged

the eye of

an alligator

the beast

once terrifying

succumbs to the pain-

A Grizzly bear

wild, large and

menacing

submits in anquish

to a piercing bullet’s power-

So must I

Fall

as monsters and man eaters do

If I am

Assaulted

Attacked

And ambushed

By the virus tipped

arrow point

of a fat, flying cherub.