Woody Woodpecker

remember woody woodpecker cartoons
with his funny laughing call
shown during the previews
at the dime black and white movies
at the princess theatre on mainstreet
the same place you went to see
roy rodgers and dale evans on saturday night
and if the theatre was full
as it might well be
you shared a seat
you walked the three blocks to main street
and on to the movies
it was safe in those days
in a small rural ohio farming community
everyone knew everyone
and looked out for them

the woods has introduced us
to another neat woodpecker
oh I don't mean like a cool one
I mean neat like tidy
he eats the suet we put out
in the peanut butter sandwich sized feeder
with small inch by half-inch open rectangles
he sticks in his beak and flies off with a treat
what is neat about him is
he starts at the square
on the far right bottom row
then systematically moves to the left
space by space until that row is gone
then he moves up a row
and in the same orderly fashion
returns again and again
we refill and get the next
neat repeat

thats all folks