Button Quail Blues

Every day when we go out to feed the quail

There is a pair of button quail taking turns sitting on their nest

One day the white one will be on there

The next day it will be the brown one

Today there wasn’t any quail on the nest

I took a closer look

The eggs were gone

It looks like the snake got them

Don’t worry my little quail friends

I have a plan

I am going to make a special egg for that snake.

He may or may not notice the little pin hole in it

But hopefully he swallows enough of the poison

Before he notices

And hopefully he dies a slow agonizing death

I hope it takes a day for every unborn baby he has killed

I hope the pain is excruciating

And I hope I get to watch.

I would have went out of my way to relocate the snake

Until he attacked my family