Not Gooses

Not+Gooses

Hannah Salim

Geese
Why not gooses
What’s a gaggle
Why are they this way

Moose
Why not mooses
Why not meese

Why is a group of hummingbirds called a bouquet
Why is a group of ravens called an unkindness

I am akin to a group of wildebeests
Confusion

And when I ask for a bouquet I get flowers

Geese
Why not gooses

Not meese
Not mooses

Which company are parrots
What business of ferrets

How can hummingbirds also be called a glittering
What happened to bouquet
Where’s the limit to what people say

What happened to pod
Whales walruses
Seals dolphins
Marine mammals understand

Geese
Not gooses
Not meese
Not mooses

Perhaps my buffalo like obstinacy towards these names
Should remain like a group of dogs
Mute

Geese
Not gooses
Not meese
Not mooses