Peacock (Found Poem)

A peacock roamed
into a Burger King parking lot
in New York City
and was beaten
by a man
who insisted it was a vampire.

Staten Island animal control officials
are saying
the bird
was beaten
with such fierceness
that most of its tail feathers
fell out
and it had to be euthanized.

The seven-year-old male peacock
wandered into the restaurant's parking lot
then perched on a car's hood last week.

Charmed

employees had been feeding it bread
when the fierce man appeared,
grabbed the bird by the neck,
hurled it to the ground
and started stomping it.

"I'm killing a vampire!“'