the dude

(Conversation with a dead millipede, while staging a photo.) 

 the dude

Excuse me my dude

hope you won’t think me rude.

Mind if I move you

where you might be viewed,

in a composition

not totally skewed.

Being polite to another being.

Being kind without even seeing;

the one with whom

I had so much concern,

had already gone 

and might not return.  

2019

Photo by Mar Startari, 2019