Saturday, January 9, 2010

Caught orange-handed


Little man riding harnessed Dino-corn
caught by trip wire shutter to camera obscura,
stealing Cutie tangerines.
The dark room was flooded as day when the flash went off, catching the robber
whom we had suspected, reaching high for a miniature Cutie, a small but tasty and seedless fruit currently sold at Pick N Save food market, where we shop.
We had suspected this seemingly motionless chap of being the tangerine thief, but he stands so gosh-darned still in the back hallway and is so metallic to the touch that it took an investigative photo trick to convince the wife and to nab him in the act.
So frightened was he, evidently, that he froze in the reaching position coming down the ladder from his mount's back, and this morning again pretended to be a piece of statuary.
But........you've got to get up p-r-r-i-t-t-t-y early in the morning to fool us/me!