bird’s-eye view of evolution
something like this has happened before:
pearls, unharvested,
swim alongside fishes with wishes–
the gauze between us smells like cinnamon
(or no, again I’m wrong, it smells like cyanide
but no one continues to care)–
everyone who will never know everyone is
a breath of swollen air that happens again, again
equating the case against the innocent
with the case that favors guilty bastards,
with anything spoken in languages
mostly dying to die, see
the dead emporiums spring up &
fall down
everywhere, with that look of aggression about …
