zoological hideaways

choosing a career is the most
important decision you will ever make.
if it chooses you, instead of
you choosing it, your chances
of success may be greater than
if you alone make the decision.
after all, who can predict
the future with all that
much accuracy? not you, i'll
bet. not me. perhaps
the brightly-colored
water snakes sun-bathing
in the swamps, the
minnows in terror, the
frogs leery and wild-eyed,
as they confront their own
set of troubles. perhaps
the water snakes are the
only ones who know what
is actually going on.
**
people who are secretaries
all their lives are
often very well-organized
people. in their secretarial careers,
as well as in their private home
lives, too. rarely is a thing out
of order. they almost never
misplace their car keys.
**
when a sexy big-dicked
teenage boy learns how
to wash a load of clothes,
it's almost always because
he doesn't want anyone
else to see the cum
stains in his underpants.
most sexy big-dicked
teenage boys get to be very
good at washing their own clothes,
eventually.
**
just a nod, a wink,
and a sigh.
**
balloon manufacture is another thing
altogether. we do that out of passion.
once you've got balloon manufacturing in
your blood, you'll never give it up.
the rewards are endless -- all those
colors, and lights, and windsongs.
**
up there, among the birds -- hawks,
and eagles, and shy little
titmice.

--Carl Miller Daniels (This poem also appears in Chiron Review, Issue #112/113, Summer/Fall 2018.)