Seagulls are aggressive: DO NOT FEED THEM - a poem

Gulls like trolls

Are aggressive

Do Not Feed,

There's no need

Disengage 

Your eyes from their gaze

Feign indifference

To belligerent ways

Keep your sandwich

In its wrapper

Don't share your battered

Cod or scratchings

Bullying hatchlings

Line the harbour wall

Let them be

Bellicose by the sea

Crumbs of comfort

Hidden away cos

Giving in to giving

Makes them more pugnacious

*****

While Brid Corporation

Isn't spying or judging

I fling a spare crust

In healthy high dudgeon

Catch the truculent gull

In a snap for posterity

Beak full of bread

Defying austerity

(c) Joyce Barrass 2015