Raymond

Raymond lived across the road In a trailer with a mother cat and five kittens And another four kittens under the trailer Whose mama cat was killed on the road And the inside mama wouldn’t feed them So animal control came and took them away And Raymond cried Raymond lived across the road With garbage cans over-full and unprotected From the bears and raccoons that come at night Even the one raccoon that got its head stuck inside a jar And ran around unable to eat or drink So Raymond tried but couldn’t catch it And Raymond cried Raymond lived across the road With a wobbly cinderblock shed of flammables And a leaf blower that fanned the flames Meant for piles of brush But rather caught the shed So all the things within exploded And Raymond cried Raymond lived across the road In his trailer set on concrete blocks Beside the creek Just waiting for the cloudburst that toppled it And sent it crashing down the creek With Raymond trapped inside And we all cried