DUCK SEASON

DUCK SEASON
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Sometimes it hurts to think,

I persevere as long as possible

and then I turn on the television.

Then my mind all but explodes, 

I see ducks walk out from

behind the credenza and the first

thing I have to wonder about is

what they were doing back there, 

were they foraging for food and

if so, what did they find?

Is there some sort of worm-hole

behind there leading to another dimension

that I don't know about, a dimension

inhabited by ducks and their clans

who have the foresight or the stupidity

to venture into the unknown?

Looking behind myself, I see nothing,

a smudge or two from where the

furniture was moved into place almost

five years ago and that's it.

No mysterious whirlpool or strange

light beckoning one to stick a finger in

there at the very least.

I try often but the ducks have

nothing to say to me, a slight

glance in my direction perhaps

and then single file they waddle

out the door, single minded in purpose

they hop onto the deck railing and

then fly due south, no matter 

what the season. I consider closing

the door so I can question them further

but I become too frightened,

what if they become hostile,

what if they have some sort of alien

weapon hidden in the eider?

I figure, leave them alone and they will

leave me alone. Strange, but they never

come back, is there another portal somewhere

that they use to get back to their

dimension, or is this how the world has

been populated with ducks? Do they know

that we eat them? Maybe the entrance

portal was in Beijing at one time but

they moved it when things became

too crispy for them?

Approximately twenty-five different

ducks pass through my living room

each year and I know nothing about

them, I could be responsible for the

start of some kind of intergalactic or 

inter-dimensional war, how can I be

sure? Unfortunately what can I do

about it? I don't like duck that much

and I could certainly never kill one 

and eat it for dinner.

I will have to wait for the sign and console myself

with the belief that if it looks like a duck.....

MCC