Pelican Manners

By Nadine Cranenburgh

Get in line
wait your turn
The early bird gets the
worm, or in this case, the fish
Schools play hide and seek
underwater, as well as
on land, and I was
first, so I am ‘it’.
Get in line, wait
your turn, or I
might eat you
instead=

• Submitted in response to Poetry Prompt #7

Nadine says: I imagined the sort of conversation that might happen in that situation – although the pictured pelicans look very well-mannered.