Ducky

The idea for the poem was actually inspired by the movie “Constantine”. In the movie, Rachel Weisz’s character had a cat named “Duck”. In this poem, “Ducky” is a duck who wants to be in a club where the members are cats…pretending to be ducks. You get all that? It’s a fairly simple poem that everyone can enjoy with a little bit of social commentary sprinkled in.

Be the duck…Beee the duck….BEEE THE DUCK!!!

*For some reason, formatting won’t let me break it into stanzas 😦

Ducky…

wanted to prove to all the

kittens that he

deserved to be in the Quack-a-Doodle club.

For unlike them, he was actually

A duck.

Ducky wanted to wear the

Quacker patch on his tufty tummy.

He wanted to puff up with pride as the other

kittens put their paws to their

pointed ears and saluted his excellence.

He deserved to be the Duke of Ducks.

Those kittens

were just posers wearing

plastic beaks to hide their whiskers

and seahorse floaties because

they couldn’t swim. Ha!

Sometimes, the girlie kittens would even put on

elastic swim caps to flatten their ears because

“A Duck-o-fide exterior shows a

true Quack-a-Doodle heart!”

But today,

Ducky was gonna show them.

He felt his flippers go

flip flop as he waddled across

the moist sand towards

the huddled kittens as they planned their next

club social.

Their fuzzy faces and

Bambi eyes turned to him

as he stopped

And let out the most ferocious sound he could make:

*meow*