Vultures

An early piece (circa 1998); A requiem for sacrificial lambs

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No pronouns
Just verbs, motion
Antonyms of meat
When it's time
& the gates fly open
they'll ascend upon what was nothing to everyone
but something to them

vultures

Raw
PHAT
Left to die and be forgotten
Only to become nourishment to those who so unfortunately
prowl insufferable climates in the hopes of
(for the first time)
discovering something ALIVE

But He has prepared a table for us
And they who found bellies soothed in the midst of my undoing
live to see their destiny