At the Duck Convention

By David C. Kopaska-Merkel

21 February 2011

a resolution was proposed

and carried with near

unanimous support

to outlaw decoys,

those quisling quackers,

web-foot weasels

siren-singing death-dealing

traitors to the flocks,

near unani-

mous, I say;

there were a few votes nay,

but when challenged,

the offending delegates,

those disgraceful dissenters,

spoke not,

but floated aimlessly

in garish splendor,

in all,

a rather wooden response.

Copyright © 2011 David C. Kopaska-Merkel

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David Kopaska-Merkel describes rocks (and the holes in them) for the State of Alabama. He collects wormholes and the like. He has published ~1000 poems, etc. over the past quarter century. He won the 2006 Rhysling award in the long poem category for a collaboration with Kendall Evans. Kopaska-Merkel has published Dreams and Nightmares magazine since 1986. You can read more of his work in our archives.

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