An Alligator on the Runway

And how shall the pilots
Deal with that

Instinctively, they might say
Into headsets

There’s an alligator on the runaway
Ten-four (or whatever)

Please advise, perhaps
Then waiting for an answer

There are rules,
After all

About animals on runways
Regulations

And what are they
Now?

I suppose an airplane
Running over animals

To keep a schedule
Would not go over well

Should anyone besides
Whoever’s in the cabin

In the tower
On the field

Should be watching
And there’s the clean-up, after

Poor alligator
Poor airplane workers

Poor plane
Poor schedule

We’ll all have to wait
While the wildlife authorities

And referees
Are contacted

And they come with easy loops
Which with to catch the alligator

Then to take it home
And the schedule

All our lives
Resume

And now we’ll have to wait
On their waiting

‘Til it’s shared
What happened

After all
Since I only saw the headline

afterward

Well, they arrived
And wrestled, so to say

Then the beast (the alligator)
Was taken to a river

Then all procedures, even the gator’s,
Resumed

C L Couch


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