Someday

If I had wings,
I too would seek the refuge of
the woods in an island
far away from
all human treks and habitats,
like those vampire finches
in the Galapagos!
Perhaps someday,
as it is said for them,
a hurricane might take me there!
Perhaps someday,
I would have an island,
teeming with birds and beasts,
all to myself!
   

This someday, I wonder if that is not
another of my lame reasons to justify
the cruel slings and arrows of a calamitous time
and the making of a scepter from two pennies and a dime! 

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