The Tiny Goat

the tiny goat wanted a birthday party

and sent out invitations to its friends

but when the day came

none of them remembered

so it gouged out its eyes

with fountain pens

the world is cruel and the moon remote

suicide was not an option for the tiny goat

the tiny goat was very, very ugly

and like all ugly things, it fell in love

when twenty years of waiting turned to nothing

it swallowed lye and laid down on the stove

when the world bites, there's no antidote

who would want to spend forever with a tiny goat?

the world's a leech crawling down one's throat

one would rather be a tick than be a tiny goat