Urban Menagerie

The avenues filled with elephants on parade.Three kinkajous in uniform stood guard atopa red construction crane. The giraffes, recentlyreturned from eating lobster, still wearing theirstained bibs, lined the curbs. The only thingmissing is fireworks someone said, and whatdo you know, the sky began exploding andbrightly wilting with sparks and ash. Eventhe distant stars, dim as they were, made a cameoappearance, hanging like ornaments above thechildren, who held hands with their mothers.Lovers kissed beneath lights strung up betweenfrosted skyscrapers. Secretly, everyone wonderedwhere it all had come from, and what strangeepisode would happen next. That's when the dogsand cats turned up out of nowhere in regal attireand began performing their skit poking funat the Revolution. There was dancing, it waschoreographed to perfection. Imagine that!It was truly spectacular. Then it was over.And I was there, and you were there, and you.