Friday, August 28, 2015

Fish and Bird

Maybe I do not want to get over it this time
Maybe I just want the opt out, the quit
A fish started to fall in love with a bird
That’s it; rather just leap on the shoreline

Suffocate in the open air
Get eaten by the crabs as the birds flap
No glance at the horrendousness
Distended and haggard

Salmon body chunks clumped off
From swimming against the current
Enough trying; surrender the scales
Have the tide take care of the rest

The bacteria and the viruses
The million ways this could have gone
Knowing this was the most likely glaring 
Like a bullet for a revolver cylinder

Accepting the shadow of the casing
Slipping in the tube for that sweet kiss
Crimson and lovely; done with attempting to fly
To swim, to walk, to flop around like an idiot

Muttering obnoxious infantile poetry
Where the audience can’t wait for this fucker to shut
So the next fucker will get on with it
So it will all be done, the grand finale of having to listen

Endurance that any of this had purpose
Peering into the mirror in the woods
Howling but no sound comes out
Embracing there was never anything to say



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