I rifled through the drawers of death.
I took back all my letters.
Death she never wrote me back.
She let me hang here ever.
I rifled through the drawers of death.
I took back all my letters.
Death she never wrote me back.
She let me hang here ever.

The leaves of all I’ve read
stir as I walk, reproach
me with their dryness, beg
to be tramped
under into something good.

A little man fried in oil
limbs in motion
stilled by the heat

Bugs unlike birds
do not flee my
innocent
port and shutter


