I was drivng on the dregs

Of Alligator Alley

In my '78 Chevette

Watching the Panther

Warning signs

Waiting for a prowler

Feline or human

To highjack me

On that highway

Of hell

Paved straight through

The swamps

When suddenly...

The stuttering stork

Hit my windshield

I went into a spin

We, both squawking,

Frozen in time

The stork to fall

Like a dying soldier...

And then to rise up

on drunken wing

To curse me

As I cursed him

For his ability to fly

And leaving me

stranded

In a forsaken ditch

In the middle of nowhere

Florida swamp

Mosquito mania

Darkness descending...

Not a soul in sight.

Felonious feathered fowl!!!

[Edited 6/20/11 20:34pm]

<--- Floridian here