Question

a game of Tiger and sheep

Answer 1

Who has the tigers and who the sheep 

never seems to make any difference. 

The result is always the same: 

She wins, 

I lose. 

But sometimes when her tigers 

are on the rampage, 

and I've lost half my herd of sheep, 

help comes from unexpected quarters: 

Above. 

The Rusty Shield Bearer, 

neutral till then, 

para-drops a winning flower — 

yellow 

and irrelevant — 

on the checkerboard 

drawn on the pavement in charcoal, 

cutting off the retreat 

of one tiger, 

and giving a check to the other; 

and quickly follows it up 

with another flower — 

just as yellow 

and just as irrelevant — except 

that it comes down even more slowly; 

a flower without a search warrant 

that brushes past her earlobe, 

grazes her cheek, 

and disappears down the front 

of her low-cut blouse — 

where she usually keeps 

her stash of hash — 

to confuse her even further, with its mildly 

narcotic 

but very distracting fragrance.
by nikhil
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