BLACK BEAUTIES

A VENDOR CROSSED MY STREET

CALLING FISH! FISH!

MY MOM WANTED TO GIVE ME A TREAT

SO SHE CALLED THE VENDOR.

MY MAID WENT TO BUY THE FISH

FOR MY MOM TO COOK AND SERVE THE DISH.

I THOUGHT THAT MY MAID WAS THE ONLY ONE WAITING

BUT ON THE BRANCHES I SAW SOME SOLDIERS SITTING

THEY WERE THE ENEMIES OF THE FOX,

THEY WERE THE ONE'S WHO DRANK WATER

BY THROWING PEBBLES WITH THEIR BEAK.

PEOPLE SAY THEY'RE UGLY BUT I FEEL THEY ARE BLACK BEAUTIES.

THEY HAVE A GREY NECKLACE

AROUND THEIR NECK

AND A BLACK COAT

ON THEIR BODY,

THEY INTRODUCE THEMSELVES,

TO THE STRANGERS PASSING BY

AS THEY MAKE NOISE;

TELLING THEIR NAMES.

YOU WOULD HAVE GUESSED WHO THEY ARE

OF COURSE, THEY ARE THE CROWS.

AND DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY WERE WAITING?

OF COURSE, FOR THE FISH.