Not for Posterity

Wanting to show my stuff—
post on the internet for all the world to see—
be it just a photograph.

I sniff around like a sleek chipmunk.
A chipmunk is very dodgy—
it wants to strut its stuff,

but it can’t abide the guff
from all the barky doggies.
I took a photograph

of a chipmunk once—
several, actually.
Naturally, I wanted to show my stuff,

so I commenced to write
a poem about a bird-feeder
with a chipmunk hanging off it. The photograph

was no better than the poem, but good enough
to be posted on Facebook for a day.
Wanting to show my stuff—
today’s photograph.