I.
Prufrock knew where
we’d spend most of our time.
And where time would
spend most of us.
II.
What names do the birds
have for themselves?
Watch as we become lost
in the sad generalization.
III.
Unfolding the paper doll chain
is just another example of symmetry,
and symmetry,
just another example
of what’s breakable.
IV.
An unscientific question:
Where did the pigeons congregate
before we paved our cities?
V.
Yes, anatomy, but
how does the skeleton of a ghost
connect?
VI.
You with such
insufficient postage,
the world so caught up
in its invented systems.
And we ask how.
VII.
I hated it most
when I became a metaphor
for what I would become.
VIII.
We're the nerve agent
accidently spilt
and the victims it took,
the reason Anubis
smiled today.
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Submission Name: disappointment and other familiar notions
