Local Legend

Outside a teardrop airstream
in the dry grass & broken bottles of a vacant lot
there’s what could be a white flamingo
or maybe it’s a whooping crane
a crestless heron or an ibis
rendered in lifesize plastic
They say the real heavies used to tap it’s
beak before sessions at the Point
A kind of Surf City hoodoo everyone swore by
until Freddy broke his neck on a real
bonecrusher in ’85 & now no one will
get within 10 feet of that fucking bird