Gutter Thought
Lying in the gutter
body battered
and broken
lay a Blackbird
one eye looking
upward, lid
half-closed,
And I wonder
whether it had
it had the time
to have a last
thought, before
being hit, by a car.
Did it know those
juggernaut are
killing machines?
Midst Fog enshrouded streets
he stalks his prey,
his features drawn,
eyes sunken, his skin sallow;
his teeth hidden, waiting.
A scream emanates off the road;
from a dark and dank alleyway.
It is the sound of a woman, who
has learnt ~
there will be no more tomorrow.
And the traffic on the road hides
this last evidence of her last now:
as her eyes close… and she sees
yesterday… fade away.
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