Mary Lee posted a video clip this morning, as part of her month-long inquiry into using media to inspire poetry, connected with using Wikimedia Commons. The video shows a bird, in a cage, squawking as if laughing (I doubt it is laughing, though), which led me to write this short poem. I was playing with rhymes a bit, trying to overlap lines.
Don’t laugh
this could be you
stuck here with me
inside this zoowhere all we do
is prance and wait
for someone else
to navigatewe situate
ourselves, here,
while dreaming only
to disappearI fear, though,
we’re here for ages
tossing words
across our cages.
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Peace (in the poem),
Kevin