Black Petals Issue #102, Winter, 2023

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Bidee Bodee, Bidee Beaux: Poem by Thomas Fischer
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Boo Hag: Poem by Richard Stevenson
Paranormal Parasites: Poem by Richard Stevenson
Huggin Molly: Poem by Richard Stevenson
In the Morgue of Memory: Poem by Hillary Lyon
Unexpected Culinary Opportunity: Poem by Daniel G. Snethen
OI (Oo-ee): Poem by Daniel G. Snethen
Plant Eater Gone Carnivorous: Poem by Daniel G. Snethen
They Shouldn't Be There: Poem by Daniel G. Snethen
The Needle Spins: Poem by Rp Verlaine
Cold: Poem by Rp Verlaine
The Sleepwalker: Poem by Rp Verlaine

Daniel G. Snethen: Plant Eater Gone Carnivorous

Plant Eater Gone Carnivorous

 

Daniel G. Snethen

 

Stegosaurus is supposedly vegetarian,

but apparently it is not.

 

Why else was a thirty-nine-year-old man

found upside-down dead,

reaching for his cellphone,

in the belly of the stegosaurus

outside the Cubic Building

in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain?

 

Obviously, he was eaten head-first

before dropping his cell and reaching for it.

Obviously, stegosaurus is carnivorous.


Daniel G. Snethen is a poet residing in South Dakota. He enjoys reading and writing poems which are dark and bizarre. Snethen's favorite piece of literature is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. Daniel makes his living by teaching indigenous students on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Snethen holds an M.S. degree in Zoology. Google his name if you are interested in reading more about him.