Random Meeting

 I am leaving the newspaper office on Main Street

at one o'clock in the morning the first Wednesday in July.

I always work late the night before the paper goes to press.

I write editorial and articles for a small town weekly newspaper.

I live alone in a one bedroom apartment.

My boyfriend is in the Army and is stationed at Fort Sill

in Lawton, Oklahoma.

I am starting my truck.

"A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Williams, Jr. 

is on the radio.

The full moon spills milk all over the sleeping town.

As I turn right on Main Street I see the large skunk

crossing the road.

The skunk looks at me with red eyes.

I look closer and see that the skunk is pregnant.

The skunk does not trust me.

She scampers across Main Street.

I drive home slowly

hoping the skunk doesn't take

too many more chances.