The Slow Earth
Someone has pickled the butterflies
Which now line like lead
My black box belly,
A living dearth.
We twist around little sorrys, our
Cement-mixer minds
absorb from Telly
What we're worth.
Dry-ice autopilot turns on, as
Words fly past windows,
Staining like jelly
The slow earth.
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