while we shackled arthropods remain
news? no news today
go on about your
day-dream impossibly
of things, sing
of things, wring
these things as if facility necessitates it - eye for eye,
am i to fly? "imagineself a raven," you glean
and cast along with butts and ashes all the hope
a more reverent image of today might have held.
who shall be held
accountable? such gusts act en masse to cast
anonymously while we shackled arthropods remain,
helpful, helpless,