Friday, June 7, 2019

US


US

We are too much like the scavengers

to be comfortable

with

crows making tools for theft

buzzards watching for death

coyotes thriving anywhere.


Our animal nature

            mammal life

scares the hell out of us
so we imagine ourselves
above

                        our fur-bearing
                        breast sucking
                        shit producing

                                    species/selves.

But

our footprints carry a scent
and mortality is on our trail

            just over there
                       
and the buzzards
and the crows
and the coyotes.



RW
Seattle
06.07.2019

(photo:  unattributed)


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