The Poacher
The Poacher
By Night
I live and hunt by night,
I rest by day
but maintain my watch.
I swoop on my unsuspecting prey.
That is natural.
It is normal.
It is Nature.
To the poacher in any land
I take a different view.
What they do is not natural.
Many a poacher
has regained consciousness
after a night attack,
to find his genitals ripped,
his manhood destroyed
but not enough
to reward him with death.
No.
Enough to make his life
thereafter
a living nightmare
by night,
by day,
by week,
by month,
by year,
by decade.
9 September 2023
All Rights Reserved
LIVERPOOL
© 2023 Kenneth Thomas Webb
Digital Artwork by KTW
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
