Little Yellow Flowers

Little Yellow Flowers

Looking out
my second story window
this morning
I saw
some cheery yellow-faced flowers
staring at me.
More than just staring,
they were sneering, too.
My second story window!
This has gone on
a little too long.
I decided
it was time
for some dandelionecide.

Went to the garden garage,
fired up the Honda,
which promptly ran out of gas.
As I was taking the gas can
down to the station,
(no titanium spy plane fuel
here either, in Seattle)
I noticed several bike riders
with number tags
slung around their necks.
Hmm....must be STP.
As it was 10:00 AM,
so the bulk of the riders
were way far south
by then
and these people were riding slow.
I thought that they might be easy
to pass up
and decided to ride my bike later,
when my final solution
of the dandelion problem
had been effected.

Back to the house,
I fired up the Honda
and commenced a Pearl Harbor
on the little florabuggers.
Now the yard is all green
(and brown,
mostly brown)
and democracy reigns again.

Doug Palmer July 2008