from the 2014 Wet Dentist EP "Border War"
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Bunnies
We try to name all the bunnies and keep
track of them. They get backstories; personalities often
spring forth from their features. Nugget is often
the tiniest bunny of the season. There was
Biscuit and Gravy, two little bunnies.
They were in love. Sometimes at dusk,
we would stand out on the veranda
wondering aloud if Biscuit and Gravy were down
their little hidey-hole snuggling.
Snoozy was a loner and would lounge
every warm, sunny afternoon near the ferns and flowers
on what we call The Grassy Knoll. You taught
Snoozy how to feast on your chopped-up
apple cores, gradually coaxing him
to chomp on them right beneath us.
Maynard's got a beatnik neck-beard, and Pickles got short ears.
They dash back and forth, sometimes right
at each other, taking turns avoiding collision by
springing a few feet straight up into the sky, faster than
Olympic track. This is our I-max . . .
The free wooded area next door not only
houses varieties of flowers that bloom at different times,
there's many other sources of cover from hawks.
To our knowledge, there is no record of any any hawk
ever having any luck with any bunny over here,
and there never will be.
That one time, that cat had something I was able
to ascertain that it was definitely not a bunny . . .
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