SCIENCE AS MAGIC
by Steve Meigs
Driving by Limestone Cove last night
I gripped the wheel in fear
Again I barely missed
a crazy white tail deer.
She leapt without a warning,
shadowy and fast.
Too late she started waving,
after she ran past.
Then I saw her white flag,
and it occurred to me,
Here's one for mad scientists,
make a deer we can see.
Engineer a new deer
before more dashing deer are dead.
It's easy, I'm sure, to do it.
Put her white tail on her head.
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