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eulogy of a species
we mourn the firefly we praise his plight
we are
in open fields with open bodies
open mouths
porous is our skin
and vast is our expanse
through holler we make echo and
raise from the seam the feathers of ill content
contortion of spine remove our bones from the presence of vertebrae
listless vertebrae
do you know of ease
make strangers of our ribs
make foe of the abdomen from whence they came
we are alien
to motion to still to linger
we are aliens and we walk among men and
we cover our alien faces with hands come from man
we are
and we mourn the firefly
gone gone
and blind
we bend
and blind
and limp.
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