How long has

this

been going

on?

 

Has

anyone taken

note or record

kept?

Probably

not but

nonetheless,

it IS occurring.

 

You've

never noticed,

have you?

I

thought not.

However,

more

importantly,

the question is

not for how

long, but

why?

 

Why

does a seagull

stand only on

one

leg?

For an

hour, a brown

and white of

the species

on a half sub-

merged tire far

from lake waters

edge a drying

spot for wetted

feathers

stood

on his left

leg only;

not his right

leg, but his

left leg

only.

Curious,

indeed!

Why,

it needs be

asked, did

God take time

and trouble to

give the seagull

two

legs when the

bird chooses

to use only

one?

 

What is this

bird about?

Who

is this gull-bird

that

stands a-drying

on one

leg

only? What

is his

game?

Revisionist?

 

That's

the scheme?!

To rewrite and

rearrange the

way of things?

Starting with

gulls left

leg?!

No!

No.

Much too deep

too much

significance.

 

The seagull cant

be a revisionist

hes asking

for nothing

from us. There

are no demands

upon our reason

no challenges to

our faith.

 

Perhaps gulls

way is the

right way;

likely

the logical scheme

of things.

Maybe just

maybe,

if by shifting

weight, an unaccounted

for ripple was

to find its way

to dams wall

only to loosen

a small pebble

which would yet

loosen a larger

stone only to

lead to a chunk

of dams mortar

to break away

allowing water

to seep through

a widening fissure;

whereas the dam

quickly collapses;

wherein a savage

torrent of water

smashes a

valley town below,

pushing lives,

houses, soil

and cats further on

and into the

sea; whereas,

the sea being

unprepared to

accept the

onslaught, recoils

with tidal waves

the force of which

destroy

all lands

which are sea-embracers;

whereas,

the

world is

enveloped in

turmoil and the

planet is set

out of balance

and breaks

from it

preordained

starry delivery

route, only

to be sent

crashing into other

planets then

planets into

stars

stars into

galaxies

into the

universe

everything to be

destroyed;

creation

to be

returned to its

point of origin.

If

by his

shifting weight,

maybe just

maybe all hell

might break loose

if the seagull

should choose,

someday,

to

stand on his

right foot

 

only.