April 15 2008

What do you do when love comes to town? --BB King

Chicago's First Mountain Lion



Photo in the paper:
Policemen standing around
pointing cameras
talking to reporters
drinking coffee
and one great big tan cat
lying on his side
and even though
there's not a drop of blood
not a mark on him
you get the feeling
this ain't the kind of cat
just plops himself down
in a crowd of cops
becasue he can't think
of anything else to do


They followed him into an alley
and when he turned on them
they started shooting

Even the conservatonists agreed:
nothing else for it --
kids in that neighborhood
walking to school--
nothing else at all

One guy said
he was sitting on his porch
when this big cat
jumped an eight foot fence
into the yard
and jumped back out
over another fence
that was higher
"He did it
like it was nothing
he wasn't even trying
I couldn't believe it
I couldn't believe it
it was like
you know
like all of a sudden
you see an angel
or something