(no subject)
Birds repeat their parents' songs
as if their lives depend on it.
They do:
catbirds, mockingbirds, starlings
Mimic birds or fire alarms but sound
most like catbirds, mockingbirds, starlings.
I compare my tongue-tied goodbye:
"You're dying, Mum."
Stupid: I only hope
she was unconscious. (Was there a hand-squeeze?
Sometimes I tailor comfortless memories.)
I spoke so she'd know I was there, that's all.
Her chest sank on each useless breath:
her lungs were full of fluid. She was drowning.
Pneumonia, the friend of suffering.
Unthinking, comfortless: at last, a truth we knew.
^--------->It did look cooler...
as if their lives depend on it.
They do:
catbirds, mockingbirds, starlings
Mimic birds or fire alarms but sound
most like catbirds, mockingbirds, starlings.
I compare my tongue-tied goodbye:
"You're dying, Mum."
Stupid: I only hope
she was unconscious. (Was there a hand-squeeze?
Sometimes I tailor comfortless memories.)
I spoke so she'd know I was there, that's all.
Her chest sank on each useless breath:
her lungs were full of fluid. She was drowning.
Pneumonia, the friend of suffering.
Unthinking, comfortless: at last, a truth we knew.
^--------->It did look cooler...