A wake of rain clouds pulling the air
Look! When they land, dust scatters
Where you think you come from?
Think a stork brought you here?
To peck at carrion,
crows step hunchbacked,
sideways, club-footed
Your Mama's carrying agin,
Birth is when babies eat
their way out is their first taste
of meat
Ebony feathers float up
from the pavement
without body
they take to flight
When your brother come, give him a coke,
teach him to smoke, scar him, hit him
when he bleeds, tell him what a pussy's for
without a mother, you gonna be his Jesus
Cawing cough the crawling claw
Air longs for beating wings
Gnawing absence gnaws
Like you, he will hold back
tears. Let his wasp stings
smart and burn before
you tend him with bactine, ice
and silence. He will think a black
eye is equal too one thousand
words
Them birds is waiting
for you to leave him be
cough and look away,
look back
they will peck out his eyes
when that happens, give him yours
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