The Scream

The boy in the University of Georgia t-shirt
has irises like you see in an Alfred Hitchcock movie--
the ones like dark half-moons setting
into rosy cheeks.

As far as I can see, he doesn't have any cavities
in his lower jaw, and his upper teeth will not need
the services of an orthodontist.

His posture reveals the possibility of a future
in the military, shoulders squared,
perhaps even slightly flexed.

He has a towel or sweater
in a lovely shade of butter yellow in his lap,
which nicely sets off his clipped, auburn hair.

His shirt has red writing outlined in black,
and is complemented by the gray upholstery
of the vehicle whose back seat he seems eager to vacate.

All this almost completely opposite the creature
whose head has entered the open window
in close proximity to the young man.

This, presumably 4-legged, animal
has large, buck teeth in its bottom jaw,
and it appears that the top teeth could use
a set of braces, not to mention a good cleaning.

The animal is not large, as it has had to lift
its head in order to insert it into the window.
The animal appears to be completely unclothed,
and will probably not have a future in the military.

The camera has distorted the image,
so that it is difficult to tell what this animal
might be, but the size and shape of the teeth
speak vegetarian to me.

Both animals, the boy and the ruminant,
seem to be singing together, one of those long,
extended notes so popular in opera.

An interesting photo, one that may come back
to haunt this young man in his manhood,
although I doubt very much the grazer will care,
or even receive a copy in the mail.



Note: today's prompt was to pick an image and write to that. I got this one from Google Images, by typing in the word "effluvia". This was the first one to come up. I've tried attaching the picture, but blogspot won't have any of that right now, so here is the URL: http://whiteoftheeye.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/5186web2-1.jpg. I hope I don't have to say that the above was written tongue-in-cheek...