sad

by walter w johnson iii

people are sad especially if their shoes are untied or their socks fall down and nobody likes them dogs are sad especially if they have no human to feed them and they have to make their own way are cats sad? kittens maybe, but full grown cats look mostly just bored or annoyed elephants are sad in circuses and zoos, but maybe not in the rolling savannas where they can knock down trees and run over people’s vegetable gardens hippos are never sad just sitting in the mud cars are not sad even if nobody drives them and they get covered in rust, they just take it on the bumper are mosquitoes and fleas sad? it is hard to tell, they are so small is all nature sad? is mother nature sad? they are not saying, are they? are aliens sad? we might find out if they ever get here