As it has been a while since I have made a post on this site, I thought I would write a little poem. Growing up, I came to the conclusion that I had a hard time writing poems due to not being able to find words that rhymed. Well today I thought of a short but impactful poem about my feelings on my biggest fear. This fear is so bad that I cannot even write the word. However, I will say that I suffer from severe ornithophobia and this is how this poem came to be. It was a reminder that no matter how many times I saw thing thing that they weren’t out to get me. I do have to caution those people who may view this poem as offensive that it may be written in bad taste but I want to reassure everyone that I am only doing this to put my mind at ease and that under normal circumstances, I would not write what I’m about to write. I would never write a poem like this about any person even if I hated them for whatever reason. For those of you who are aware of what ornithophobia is, you will understand that for years, it’s been bothering me. As a 35 year old man at the time of this writing, I think it’s my turn to fight back. In all of my 35 years, I have never seen eye to eye with this thing, sometimes even refusing to go outside in some cases. Well I’m sick of that and now it’s my turn to fight back and I’m going to do this in a short but possibly inappropriate way. So here it is. The poem I will write about my biggest fear.

They want French fries. They want Coke. They want hamburgers. I just wish they would choke!

By Jefferson Bert