Whippersnapper

What is a whippersnapper?
Is it a fish
Flipping vigorously
In your net?
Perhaps a quick crab or a scorpion
All I know is
It is what it isn't
Go wikipedia it
Now why did you do that...
The sun weighs the ocean down
You reach for oxygen wells
In sheep tank gas
Oxygen masks remain hopeful
With nothing left
The lethal injection
Fortified food supplies
Left by math students
Right by physicists
In the following cranes
In the floods to follow
In the cranes to watch
Of your math thesis
On a bad night
Of nought
But storms and pudding
Warming the bathroom
Testing the mines
The shortcomings
The collapse
Your happiness
Your glee
Your pudding by example
I laughed you sent me your fee
That the cranes watched before me
Heroning
That whippersnapper
That catches
The early worm
Worn smooth
Skipping rocks
Climbing ladders
Dressing and dancing
What you think you know
Is what it isn't
Snap.

Denis Streeter   9/29/12