Scarecrow, part 3: the Cloud 11/02


desert: too hot to fight.

top of the hill,
   scarecrows on guard.
surrounding the hill,
   large skeletons with decaying flesh
   show off razor-sharp teeth and claws.
  
former out-numbered by thousands.

         
"Stand firm!" yells a scarecrow,
                   
"the Cloud is above us!"

charging for straw,
dirty bones close in.

         
"Hold strong!"

laughing and rumbling,
skeletons strive on heat.

         
"Hold!"

ratio: too deadly to blink.

         
"Hold!"

seven yards apart and swallowing.

          "
RE-JOICE!!!!!"

suddenly the scarecrows play all kinds
of instruments, known and unknown
throughout the world as some sing
loud in harmony:

         
"We Sing for Free-dom,
                    Sing for
Free-dom."

the skeletons invovoluntarilylyly shshake.

         
"La la laah,
                    La la laah."


bones explode into sand--
giant donut of flying dust!

         
"We Sing for all the Children, Sing for
                    all the Children, 'lala lala, la lah. 
                              La la lah, lalaah'�"


smoke clears.  music ends.     
the skeletons have all vanished.

          silence.

again the Cloud quickly begins moving.
the scarecrows pack up and follow it�

i      am all the scarecrows.

the Cloud      is my Rainbow.
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